Does BA or BS in applied math matter to MFE programs?

[Jia]

Greetings to everyone. Currently, I am majoring in Applied Math in college as Bachelor of Science. However, the general requirement of BS requires one-year physics and one-year chemistry, both with lab sections and discussion sections. And this is the part that annoys me the most. I definitely will not have any problems with either classes if I were to take them. However, these two classes take away so much time from my schedule with which I can take more classes of advanced math classes and computer science (in which I am thinking to minor). As a BA (Bachelor of Arts), I only need to take two more humanity classes which I don't mind doing. Even though the requirement of math for BA is less demanding. But I almost have covered all the math requirements for BS already.
So my point is that I don't want to waste time on the science part which may not have any real contribution to my career goal (to be a quant, of course) and take more useful classes. But my only concern is that would a BA degree in math look terrible for future graduate school and employers? Or do they just look at your course load and corresponding performance?
I would appreciate to any thoughts.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

That's required part of your undergraduate education in the US. I took several physics courses, as well as music, history, etc.
What I did was taking over the required full-time credits (18/semester). That way, I was able to load up on more advanced math courses while paying the same tuition per semester (it may different from your school). 22-24 credits were the norm.
That's one way to go about solving your problem.

 

[Shantanu Kumar]

Its same everywhere. Basic Physics/Chemistry classes 2-3 semester combined with their labs. Don't worry as it's a norm. I had to take engineering courses like Electrical engineering lab, Mechanical engineering lab etc even though I was a Math major. So do what Andy has suggested in case you feel like you will be missing out on certain Maths courses, otherwise go for the BSc with the proposed curriculum.