I registered to just to add some evidence of this. I did poorly in all of my math courses throughout middle school and high school while doing superb in everything else. I hated math more than any other subject. Senior year of high school came, and I was tired of doing horrible. I was surrounded by incredibly intelligent friends who all did very well in their math courses, and I was tired of being the odd one out. So I skipped pre-calc and went straight into AP calculus. I studied my fucking ass off. It paid off (through self study mostly, using khan academy and good textbooks).
Fast forward to the present. I am now a sophomore at a university with an incredibly strong math department. I've finished the core mathematics curriculum, and I am currently taking two grad courses (Algebraic Topology and Grad Linear Algebra). I plan to take two more in the spring, and hopefully participate in a undergraduate research program in the summer.
This is coming from someone who got a 600 on the math section of the SAT (800 on the the other two).
But I wouldn't recommend going into math like I did. It has been an incredibly hard task. I am very, very, VERY jealous of those of you who had an inspired early math education. Oh, the work that could have been saved...
Fast forward to the present. I am now a sophomore at a university with an incredibly strong math department. I've finished the core mathematics curriculum, and I am currently taking two grad courses (Algebraic Topology and Grad Linear Algebra). I plan to take two more in the spring, and hopefully participate in a undergraduate research program in the summer.
This is coming from someone who got a 600 on the math section of the SAT (800 on the the other two).
But I wouldn't recommend going into math like I did. It has been an incredibly hard task. I am very, very, VERY jealous of those of you who had an inspired early math education. Oh, the work that could have been saved...