I posted this a few days ago but it was removed by the mods. Trying again.
I’ve been trying to get good at math for sometime now (\~4-5 years). I’ve been failing miserably, unable to grasp the abstraction needed. I did fine on my SATs and GRE (90-92 percentile), so I must have some aptitude for math right? I even worked with a private tutor from one of the top universities in India to learn math and he thinks I should switch to CS as I apparently have more of a knack for that. Should I give up and pivot or keep going?
Also, is the abstraction in CS different from math in some definable way? Why can I get one but not the other?
Edit: I also want to mention I showed this to my tutor and he said the reason he suggested pivoting to CS is because most people doing math have decades of experience on me and it will be hard for me to make any meaningful contributions. Not so for CS which I started when I was 14.