How hard is the Penn Math Major?

TevashSzat
Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:24:44 +0000

The Math major is hard. Or rather, there are alot of requirements that can become really nasty. More so than any department though, it really depends on your professor. The same class taught by different professors can result in drastically different experiences.

Generally I would say that don’t judge whether you want to major in math from what you did in HS. Unless you did alot of analysis / proof based math, most of HS math, even competition stuff, are just tricks and computational bs. I would strongly take a proof-based course as early as you can without a decent prof and see how it goes for you, which i guess translates to go take math 116/260 i guess.