@ucbalumnus : The effect of chemistry on pre-health is well documented and is honestly more acute at other (elite) schools with much higher D/F rates in them: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2814029/pdf/10459_2009_Article_9165.pdf
An article stemming from a collab between your alma mater and Stanford.
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/06/03/the-pre-med-drop-out/
Described here in a Stanford Daily article…yuck in terms the tone of the commentary and writing in this article (reads like data driven whining. We get it, being pre-health is tough). Also gonna be blasphemous and say that I’m not sure that chem 33 is one of the harder organic chemistry sequences. Seems like Berkeley, other strong UG chem programs, and Stanford’s Ivy near peers may be a bit rougher, but the chem 14X series for life sciences does look tough, reminiscent of Harvard chem 27 which is tougher than most bio-organic focused ochem sequences (or ochem period) at least if we talk level of content, problems, and not just grade distribution.