Need Help with Major!

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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?

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Would you be able to get through calculus? I think Env Science would normally require calculus.

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Agree with @philbegas, that most Environmental Science (BS) tracks involve some amount of math, especially Calculus and Statistics. Environmental Studies (BA) may emphasize the social science/policy side of Environmental Science and could have less math. Have you looked over the course curriculum for the Environmental science track at your school? How much math is involved?

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^Good point, is it a BA or BS in EnvSci in your school? Maybe a minor in Env Sci doesn’t require calculus?

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You can major in law schools and minor in environmental science or ecology. but about math… you have to at least get through Calculus, you can try statistics instead, it is a lot of analyzing and applying

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law could work out!

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OP hasn’t been back since the 24th, I don’t think they care lol.