Major choice help!

Hey everyone. My name’s Bayley. I’m 19 and will be starting college this summer. I need to choose the track for my major before school starts, as the pre-req’s are completely different for my two choices. On one hand I have environmental science. The other I have political science.

I’m incredibly passionate about the environment. Whether it be as an environmental lawyer, a journalist, a president of a non-profit or an animal rescue, I would love to dedicate my education to benefiting the environment. This is my biggest passion. The problem is… I can’t do math. I mean really. I tried out the easiest problems on the ACCUPLACER and I didn’t know how to do them. And teaching it to myself is extremely challenging for me. The next two years of classes I would be taking would be majority math and science courses, and I would seriously struggle.

Where as with political science, I have classes I would throughly enjoy. Pre-law, social sciences, economics. I love these topics and would actually have a great time being in class. With this degree I would pursue becoming an environmental lawyer or a journalist. I would still want to run an environmental non-profit and work on environmental projects.

I’ve thought of a double major or a minor in environmental science. What do you all think?

You can work in environmental sciences without majoring in it, and it sounds like you would genuinely love the classes for your political science major. So why not choose the political science major? You could choose to minor in environmental science, or you could just take the classes in environmental science you really liked.