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Jackie Evancho is ready for the big time. One song away from a $1 million prize and a U.S. tour, the Richland fifth-grader told the Tribune-Review on Thursday: "There's nothing to be afraid of. I'd rather be on tour than in school." A tutor in Los Angeles is teaching Jackie, 10, while the Pine-Richland School District awaits a decision on her future education, said Rachel Hathhorn, director of public relations. Evancho will learn Wednesday whether she wins the grand prize on "America's Got Talent". She performs one final time Tuesday against three other acts; the show will air from 9 to 10 p.m. on NBC. Part two is scheduled to run from 8 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, when the winner will be announced.

"I have a shot, but not as good as everyone else," Jackie confessed during the interview about her stay in California for the shows and her aspirations. "I want to write songs in the future." The youngster helped craft each week's performance. "I've been trying to establish a theme," she said.

She performed songs in Italian or Latin: "O Mio Babbino Caro" by Giacomo Puccini on Aug. 10; Andrea Bocelli's "Time to Say Goodbye" in her second performance; and "Pie Jesu" by Andrew Lloyd Webber in her third.

Pittsburghers are among those rallying support for the girl with an astonishing soprano voice whose popularity skyrocketed after her first television appearance. People who live in her school district are invited to watch the finals Wednesday at her school, Eden Hall Upper Elementary, where her friends, teachers and classmates will gather.

After a month of traveling to and from Los Angeles, living in a hotel and being told where to be and when to be there, Jackie's mother, Lisa, is wearing down. "We don't know what we're doing on any given day," she said. Jackie's father, Mike Evancho, and siblings will fly to Los Angeles this weekend to join the family for the finale. "It's almost as if we're with them," he said, because the technology that helped Jackie land on the show keeps family members in touch: e-mails, texts, phone calls and conversations on Skype.

Autograph requests have slowed since Jackie's first performance, mostly because she and her mother do not go out in public often.The young singer's upbeat personality isn't an act. She's chipper as always but misses her own bed and playing with friends because there's not much time to relax, she said. "They said it would be hard work to do a television show," she acknowledged.

Backstage and at rehearsals, her competitors are friendly, and they sometimes share a swim at the hotel, Jackie said. At the end of the show Wednesday, while cameras were still rolling, soul singer and finalist Michael Grimm leaned over to Jackie and said, "Welcome to the Top Four Club." Grimm said he has become one of her biggest fans because he has "never heard anything like that."