Biology students may wonder if the math they are required to take will be useful to them in the future or if it just a hurdle they need to jump over.
The thing is that biology is becoming increasingly mathematical. For example, -omics type studies require significant statistical analyses. So do studies that involve any kind of analysis of a control group vs. a treatment group (that's a lot of studies in biology). While you can hire a statistician to do the analysis for you, you still need to be able to understand what s/he's talking about and the stuff that other people have written. It's also important that people who review papers and grants have at least a rudimentary understanding of the statistics that the writers use. In my experience in grant review, this is often not the case. Reviewers often gloss over the statistics and assume that the writers are correct.
And that's just statistics. There are other areas (e.g. modeling), too. Google "mathematics in biology" for a flavor of the idea, though.
There's a movement to improve mathematical skill in biology students, but it's still in its infancy.
