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Hey I need some advice. I'm currently a high school junior, and i am HOPELESS at mathematics. I've always managed to scrape by with 65s, and trust me its not lack of effort, i try really hard. All my other grades are over 90s, with the exception of sciences which are in the high 80s. Last year i flunked geometry, and i made it up over the summer and passed, but needless to say my math avg. is like a 68. My overall . though, is an 89.5. I have to choose my classes for next year, and math has really pulled me down the last 3 years. Should i even bother taking it next year since its not required? Will colleges care that i dont have a math senior year, even though i'm doubling up my sciences? Would they rather see me take precalc and get a 65, or drop it completely and continue to work my butt off in other classes.
Thanks so much!!
Short answer: it depends on your college major, and what you plan to do post-college.
There are a number of majors and careers that will be closed to you if you absolutely can't do math. For example, you're probably not going to get into engineering school and probably wouldn't be happy with an engineering career in any case if you hate math. However, other majors require math: you'll have a hard time pursuing any of the sciences without math; psychology requires statistics courses; business requires business math including some rather difficult math like linear programming.
You might consider a liberal arts program as an undergraduate; this will minimize the amount of math you'll have to take. My guess is you'll have a hard time finding a college where you don't have to take at least one math course; however, there's often a course called something like "mathematics for liberal arts majors" provided which wouldn't be too hard to get through. A BA in liberal arts will be about as useful as a BA in business when you go out to apply for entry-level jobs in my experience; employers are looking for people who can think and communicate and many won't care if your undergrad degree was in business or liberal arts.
Down the road, if you decide to go to graduate school, you won't need any math if you pursue a degree in English or Art. However, you'll have to come to grips with this if you someday decide to get an MBA; math is absolutely required for an MBA. Since you mention "doubling up in the sciences", I assume you're interested in a degree in the sciences? Physics is a lot of math at the college level; chemistry less so; biology not so much. But you'll have to take some math at the college level if you're going into any of the sciences.
If you do decide you need math, you can consider obtaining some tutoring. If you google "math tutors" you'll find a lot of links. Plenty of people get tutoring in subjects they find difficult at the college level.
You may want to talk to your school couselor about what college classes will be needed. There are required classes in college just like high school, so a number of math classes will be required, I am not sure how hard these may be at the college you go to.
But you have a problem, have you discussed this with your parents, perhpas get a private insturctor, or even one of the professional programs to help students learn. Instead ot running, perhaps extra help into it.
Without math, there are alot of majorsin college that will be restricted to you.
Since you mention "doubling up in the sciences", I assume you're interested in a degree in the sciences? Physics is a lot of math at the college level; chemistry less so; biology not so much. But you'll have to take some math at the college level if you're going into any of the sciences.
I'm only doubling up in science b/c my highschool requires it if you drop math-i hate science. i hate math.
There's several things to be considered. For one, I will say that dropping a class mid-year never looks good so don't consider the option of starting something then throwing in the towel if it gets rough. Having a low grade in one particular course isn't so bad as long as your other grades make up for it, especially if your intended program isn't mathematically or scientifically oriented. Have you taken the SAT yet? How well did you do, especially on the math section? That'll probably be more important then whether or not you take math your senior year and the grade you get with it. If you plan on attending a liberal-arts college then you can probably get away with omitting math your senor year and substituting another academic course instead.
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