I'm not a mathy person (only went through Alg II in high school) and college algebra definitely counted as college math credit when I was in school. Obviously it's not going to count for some majors, and is not a class that a kid who took calculus in high school is going to take. Remedial math is below college algebra, for students who aren't even ready for that class.
I also had to take calculus for business/social science majors (watered down calculus I guess - it was a really interesting class) and statistics. I aced those classes, which either means that I'm actually decent at math, or that the other students in those classes were just really terrible at math. Maybe a little bit of both.
