Seconded. Hard, scary math is well worth the effort even if you never, ever, use any of it professionally as a programmer in a direct way. You'll be forced to

Seconded. Hard, scary math is well worth the effort even if you never, ever, use any of it professionally as a programmer in a direct way. You'll be forced to stretch yourself and get used to the idea and the time involved in working on hard problems. Which does translate to dev work later. Generally, even if the CS program at your university or college isn't that rigorous (and right now, with falling enrollments, it doesn't seem that the average CS school is interested in changing this), the faculty in the math department are almost always scary smart. Take advantage of them.