<p>Hi. I am going to be attending the honors college at UCF, and i am trying to decide on a major.</p>
<p>I am very good at math:
SAT MATH: 790
AP CALC AB: 4
AP CALC BC: PENDING</p>
<p>I have always been very good at math. I have good problem solving skills. I'm decent in reading, but A LOT better at math. 570 in SAT READING.</p>
<p>I am trying to figure out what major will suit me best. Right now my major is Finance/Accounting, but im still thinking about Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and other math involved majors. Do you guys have any suggestions? (I don't want to be a math teacher)
THANK YOU!!</p>
<p>Both of your ideas are good. Perhaps actuarial science could be considered as well (if it is a major at UCF).</p>
<p>the career center at college has counselors and resources to help you pick an appropriate major. You don’t need to make any decisions now.</p>
<p>You say that you are very good at math - are you also interested in a career that uses a lot of math? I assume that you are. Not only are there academic counselors to help you pick a major, you’ll also get a better idea of what you like once you get to take some classes in it. My husband is very good at math but changed his major from mathematics because the emphasis at our university is too pure and not enough applied (he’s going statistics instead).</p>
<p>Here are some math-heavy majors at UCF you may be interested in:</p>
<p>Health management and informatics (mostly the informatics side)
Photonic science and engineering (apparently they work on loptical and laser systems)
Math…obviously (it doesn’t look like UCF has a major in applied math)
Physics
Statistics
A variety of engineering majors - electrical engineering, civil engineering, mechanical or aerospace, industrial
Computer science
Economics
Accounting</p>
<p>Also, be aware that math can be used in a lot of fields that aren’t traditionally thought of as math-heavy. For example, advanced psychology can be math-heavy and there are whole fields called mathematical psychology and quantitative psychology. Education really requires people who are great at math (especially statistics and measurement science) to help design and evaluate educational assessments/tests. Math can also be heavily used in political science (policy analysis especially) and marketing (market research, especially using analytics to collecting marketing data). There’s also such a thing as computational biology (and indeed, UCF has a mathematical biology minor).</p>
<p>Finance can be very math heavy, but is usually not math heavy in undergraduate business schools. (PhD and MFE programs are usually where you would find math heavy finance.)</p>
<p>UCF’s math major has suboptions for various applied areas, and a general suboption that presumably allows for a pure math concentration or an applied concentration that is not one of the other suboptions:
<a href=“http://math.cos.ucf.edu/undergraduate/pages/Major.php”>http://math.cos.ucf.edu/undergraduate/pages/Major.php</a></p>
<p>Engineering maybe?</p>