Nursing Decisions on West Coast 2017: Where are you thinking of going and why?

@kgiesch UCLA and UCI seem to be unique among nursing schools in that their required nursing curriculum includes significantly more chemistry and advanced biology coursework than most other nursing schools in the U.S. I believe each school requires a quarter of Calculus too. Do you know why these additional science courses are required? Are they designed to weed students out of the program? They don’t seem to be required for advanced practice nursing…