I took the bare minimum math in college as well. And I survived and thrived! I know kids that are at Fredonia, Oswego, Oneonta and Buff State that all never passed Algebra II/Trig or didn’t even attempt it. My daughter’s high school somehow, insanely, switched to common core when she was in Geometry. In math and English they had to take both the common core and regents exams and could keep the higher score. My daughter took Honors English and got a 100 on the Common Core exam, saying “All we did was have to write a persuasive essay with the facts given.” She’s steering herself toward science and loves what’s she’s taking now, but her artistic side and Social Sciences side is so much…what would I call it… “More developed.” So there’s a big chance she won’t stick with it but I don’t know because she’s determined right now. But at one point in Algebra II/Trig (of all classes) she told me to never let her major in anything that required math! She hated it! But her father hated math and graduated the last year of HS in NY when you only had to take Algebra. But he ended up graduating with a BS and MS in Environmental Science from SUNY ESF. I didn’t meet him until after that, and have no idea how he did it! (It also took him 2 years plus a summer to pass HS Algebra!) We’ve been married 20 years and he just says math clicked in college, which is why he believes most people are capable of college math-- he’s living proof!