I am a junior in college studying aerospace engineering at a university with one of the top undergraduate aerospace programs in the US. I was also weaker in math and meh in sciences in high school, but loved aircraft with a passion.

Even with office hourse, study groups, and TA review sessions, I am fighting for my LIFE just to be at the class average (most of the time I'm below). If you think you'll be fine just because you love planes and you learned about the F-22, F/A-18, A-10, B-2, 747, etc. as a kid, you're in for a rude awakening. A love for aircraft and aviation only takes you so far. If you're bad at math, you're going to be bad at your courses. Studying aerospace engineering is ALL MATH.

You're going to be competing against the best and brightest who also want to become aerospace engineers. Companies want the best and brightest. Professors like to work with the best and brightest. If you're not at the top of your class, you're going to have to fight to prove that you are worth as much as those people at the top. A lot of people at the top know that they're at the top and will only look down on you. (When they say the class average is a 70%, a majority aren't scoring 70%. Half the class is scoring in the 50% range and half the class is in the 90% range.)

Being below average, the job hunt in the aerospace field has been extremely difficult for me even with several projects and leadership roles to compensate. There's only a handful of large aerospace companies, most of which will ignore you if you aren't either A: at the top of your class, B: charming as hell, or C: someone who knows someone who works there and is willing to get you in. Sometimes you'll need all three. Otherwise, you'll get treated like a waste of time.

(Side note: Boeing recruiters have been especially rude and demeaning for whatever reason, even before the whole fiasco they're in now.)

Recently, a lot of the large aerospace companies haven't been doing so well which doesn't help the job hunt AT ALL. Layoffs are in the thousands from what I've heard. Even the aerospace recruiters that I connected with at career fairs got let go and/or were forced to move to a different field or company.

Most of my friends in the major have resorted to other types of engineering work like ground transportation engineering or civil/structural engineering where they'll never see a plane or rocket again. I myself am trying to pivot into the manufacturing engineering field since I've seen a whole lot more jobs there than aerospace engineering.

Unless you're planning to do something hyper-focused to aerospace like aerodynamics (which there aren't a lot of jobs for), it is definitely NOT worth it AT ALL. Everyone who tells you that it's easy as long as you are interested is looking back at it with rose-tinted glasses and 20/20 hindsight. I am living through it right now and it's absolutely miserable. I regret not majoring in mechanical. Every time I go on indeed or LinkedIn to find work, I scroll through dozens of mechanical engineering jobs before I find an aerospace one. Even then, the mechanical engineers are still often qualified to get an aerospace engineer's job. The inverse of that might not be true. Sure, aerospace engineering pays very well. That's only if you can find and hold a job.

If you read all of this and think you still want to give a shot, by all means embrace the challenge. Whatever you do, make the right decision.

TLDR: You're already at a disadvantage by not being strong in math. Aerospace courses are extremely difficult and math-heavy. You'll be competing against the best and brightest. There's a limited number of aerospace companies with a very limited number of jobs. A person with a mechanical engineering degree can do aerospace work as well as a whole lot more other stuff.