<p>FutureDoc, you don’t need to be a math savant to do well in math in college. I was a math major and yes I was very decent in math in high school but no savant. And I graduated with a GPA above 3.5 in my math courses. So i think I did fairly well and I wasn’t a savant. </p>
<p>You do need to have good to very good mathematical ability to succeed. Math in university as many people before have said or alluded to is quite different (harder) from math in high school. In college, you can get through freshman year and MAYBE 1 semester of your sophomore by relying on the advanced high school math you are taking. Beyond those years math gets REAL. Linear Algebra, Differential Equations (ordinary and Partial), Abstract Algebra/Algebraic structures are no cake walk. You really need to study do well in these classes. Real Analysis is the killer. That’s the hardest thing I have ever taken in my life. I still don’t understand many of the topics covered in Real Analysis. So no you don’t have to be a math savant to do well studying math in university, but you need to have at the very least, good mathematical ability.</p>
<p>As for job opportunities:
you can be high school teacher (who wants to do that right? That’s what I’m doing now) or college teacher (with graduate math studies), an actuary (takes a while to become a full fledged one but it’s worth it), you can work for the department of defense or CIA if you do well at a top university. You can become a lawyer. You can even go into engineering. Graduate engineering programs tend to accept math majors if their grades are good. I am gonna be going to graduate school to study Industrial Engineering.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>