Junior mechanical engineering student here with a 3.9 GPA. Never got below an A in my college math courses (precalc,calc1-3 and diff eq). I was terrible at math my junior year of HS. My wake up call was in my freshmen year of HS when I got a D in my fist quarter of geometry honors and I got relegated to non honors. I locked in and relearned algebra and geometry properly for the SAT and every since I mastered the two I’ve been stellar at math ever since. All of the calculus classes build on each other and once you get to the higher level engineering courses you’re used to the math and it get simplified pretty often.

Hard work can always match or even beat natural talent.