<p>Her eyes kind of glaze over at the mention of Math. I’ll have her respond though because she can say it a lot better:
I don’t like Geometry, especially the proofs.
I did enjoy doing matrices in Advanced Math (basically a trig and pre-calc class).
I don’t understand where things come from and where they are going and can’t see the connections between the numbers and what I need to do to them to get the correct answer. I can memorize the steps to solve an equation easily, but when it comes down to actually solving a problem I get lost and the numbers don’t work.
An example of being able to see the connections in the numbers is in my AP Chemistry class. When we do conversions to moles or any manipulating of the substances, I am able to see what I have and where I need to end up, so the numbers work and have a purpose and I’m able to figure it out. </p>
Majors & Jobs for remembering specific info, then mentally manipulating the info, hates rote memory.
<p>There is no need to decide on career or even major at this point. it is fine to go to college as an undecided unless you want to do engineering or other career-focused major. Once on campus you can try out a variety of classes. Some of the best stories are of kids who, say, take Russian for the heck of it and end up working in a field related to that after travel to Moscow and studying there. Or geology. Or American literature. Etc.</p>
<p>I wonder if you could possibly have ADHD. It sounds like you had some neuropsych. testing but that often does not pick up attention problems because the testing is one on one in a room without much distraction. If you have trouble persevering when your interest level is low, you may have an attention problem, or it may be a strength that you need to listen to. Hard to tell.</p>
<p>Anyway, overplanning and premature decisions can actually interfere with opportunities. Stay flexible about major and career as long as you can.</p>
<p>Per post #20, I seem some encouraging potential math aptitude in there, Perhaps there is just some simple coaching that could help on the logistics of problem solving. Any hints from other parents? </p>
<p>If she had a tutor I think she would have mastered it. Once she gets stuff it sticks. I almost wish she could get a tutor and go back and do the math classes over the summer so she’s better prepared and confident in it for college.</p>
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<p>Going to law school does not require any particular undergraduate major.</p>
<p>I would think law school requires more memory like medical school. History is the same. I don’t like rote memorization when I was younger and guess what subjects were my downfall, history, psychology.
Even in engineering requires some memory, just not rot memorization.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with rote memory. ABC… 123… Do Re Mi … I think we could list dozens of examples that are “rote” that we use every day and are very useful. I had some problems in hs myself with certain memorization issues that I had little interest in. Chemistry valences and trigonometry identities come to mind. </p>
<p>But the problem wasn’t the memorization requirements (otherwise known as “knowledge”). It was that I didn’t care about them and was lazy and unmotivated in those areas.</p>
<p>If the problem is “math facts”, its pretty easy to remedy in a few weeks with about 10 minutes a day and flash cards, or other things. Even if its something else, its probably no more work than that.</p>
<p>I’m sometimes bad at rote memory. These days it’s nice that Google can help us learn (or relearn) facts quickly,</p>
<p>I was going to suggest Engineering (as an INTJ Engineer) but that won’t work if you don’t like math.</p>
<p>"Sure, you have to take the 4 or 5 math classes for an engineering degree but that should be mostly it. "
-These are the least challenging. The most challenging math is actually within each engineering class, any single one, unless it is called Software Engineering, which I have never undertood. If one is developing software, it has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of engineering and no math there either, it is simply the same as computer programming, if you want everybody to understand what software engineers do. That is why it is called SOFTware vs HARDware, it is writing the code</p>
<p>Is there an English language literacy requirement for CS majors? Guess not.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the responses. Just opening this discussion has allowed us to understand her situation better and be able to state it more clearly. </p>