I’m currently a sophomore in an international school, and I’ve had straight A’s all throughout high school. The problem is, while all of friends know what they want to do, I have absolutely no clue what direction I want to take. I don’t even know for sure yet whether I should go towards the STEM fields or if I should stick with literature, history, philosophy, etc. The thing is, most people excel in one field which is how they know which path they should take. This really does not apply to me because while I’ve always hated math, I’m fine with the STE in STEM. I’ve never sucked in one particular subject except for math which is why I don’t know if I’m in the STEM fields (without the M) or if I should go into the literature and history fields. I really don’t know. Please help!
@cyoon19 - It’s fine to be undecided, but there are two types of “undecideds,” and I’m sure you can figure out which one is more appealing to admissions offices:
- I'm undecided because nothing's really stoked my passion. I'm waiting to be passionate about something.
- I'm undecided because I'm passionate about a bunch of unrelated things and there are a lot of disciplines I don't know much about but which I'm very curious.
Hmm…
Your friends will probably all change their minds about what they end up studying. Please don’t worry. Frankly, I am more concerned that you are too worried about what everyone else is doing. People can and very often do, change their majors a lot. If you plan to come to college in the US, you can study what you like. You have plenty of time.
You can’t do much STE with out the M unless you like Chemistry or Biology. 
Some thoughts:
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Go to your schools guidance office and talk to them. They may have tests/tools that help you figure out what career (and therefore major) is best for you)
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What math/science courses did you take in HS? What was your Math SAT score?
If you have not taken Calculus and got a low Math SAT score, you are not prepared for Engineering. -
Read this article: What problem do you want to solve?
https://■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/pulse/20140804104444-17000124-let-s-kill-the-college-major -
Take an online quiz…there are many
http://www.luc.edu/undergrad/academiclife/whatsmymajorquiz/
http://www.slu.edu/beabilliken/quiz-college-majors -
Talk to the teacher in your favorite class and see what they think
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Pre-med/sociology/public health/psychology are majors where you want to help people directly.
Business/engineering/comp sci are majors where you want to solve technical/organizational problems.
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What were your favorite classes in HS?
There’s a good bit of math in chemistry, too, and even most biology majors have to take 1-2 semesters of calculus. Higher level biology requires quite a bit of math for analysis.
Also, you don’t need to have taken calculus before college to succeed in engineering in college. Lots of engineering majors start the sequence with calculus.
That’s a bit of a false dichotomy. I have a psychology degree and I solve technical/organizational problems; I do not help individual people directly. Also, neither public health nor sociology is about helping people directly; public health is actually the opposite of clinical medicine, in that you improve the health of many people (hundreds, thousands, millions) at the same time. Sociology is about studying people in groups and cultures.
And there are some business, engineering, and comp sci jobs where you help people directly - like HR workers, or biomedical engineers who build prostheses, or computer science teachers and programmers who do outreach or education for K-12 or higher folks who want to learn programming, or engineers who work in nonprofits or government agencies.