I don't think math majors consider statistics a math course. I should note that I did study a year in California. There, the computer science was much harder,

I don't think math majors consider statistics a math course. I should note that I did study a year in California. There, the computer science was much harder, and the math was much easier (scored straight A's in math courses literally without any effort, and nearly failed the operating systems course that I took).