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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm about to start my senior year of high school. I hate to admit it, but I'm a bit of a slacker academically. From my observations, it seems like math majors, particularly pure math majors, have a much easier time in college than anyone else. Is this the path I should follow if I don't want to have to work hard in college?[/quote]

This reminds me of [url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/27/opinion/college-choice-regrets.html]a Mar 23 piece in the NYT[/url]: "We Talked to 10 Graduates About Their College Regrets"

"There were some pretty big holes in my mathematics major."

[i]When I was applying to college, there was a news article about the best colleges that were outside the Ivy League. Skidmore was one of the “new Ivies” in the article. I liked Skidmore when I visited. It seemed to be strong academically, and it was a small school, which I thought would be uniformly better than a large school.It wasn’t until I went to graduate school and worked at several universities that I realized Skidmore had left me severely underprepared. I still feel like I’m catching up. There were some pretty big holes in my mathematics major. People I know who studied math at other schools took twice as many courses as I took in mathematics, because I was filling my credits with liberal arts classes. When I was 17, I thought well-roundedness was really attainable only at a small liberal arts school. If I could go back in time, I would have gone to a medium or larger school and tried to make the well-rounded thing happen on my own.[/i]

So don't major in pure math at Skidmore.[/quote]

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