@worldstudent I remember that UPenn had a strong emphasis on chemistry but I’m not sure about other schools! I think that they are aiming to have nurses really prepared to go into advanced fields especially with research and stuff, but otherwise they seem to just say that it’s for us to get ready for our upper div nursing science classes. The calculus kind of sucked and was definitely just a UCLA thing but it’s totally do-able, as are the chem classes. Hopefully I’ll be able to give better guidance once I’m a few years in and have figured out why we have to do chem. I’m sure that they have some reasoning, and virtually all the nurses who graduate from this program seem to go into strong fields of research or very strong clinical practice settings. We don’t get weeded though - in general science classes we only have to get a C- to keep our standing, and a C in normal nursing classes. I’m so sorry, I wish I had a better answer!