<p>If I wind up majoring in English / history then going to med school would science be as important as it would be if I majored in science.</p>
<p>@Brown–</p>
<p>I do get what you’re saying but there is a world of differnce between an elite college and your run-of-the-mill state U. And there’s an even bigger difference between a elite prep school like you attended and most public US high schools.</p>
<p>Before I went into my current career, I taught middle/high school in one the 20 largest urban school districts in the US. Huge disparities in readiness for school. (30% come in not speaking any English whatsoever) Huge disparities in course offerings. A good many high schools in the district don’t offer ANY AP classes. (IF you wanted an AP, you need to take a bus or get a ride somehow to a centralized ‘academic center’ --which in turned requires a student to have a full 3 hours block available everyday which in turn means the student has a very limited options about what other courses they can take.) Additionally as budget cutting measure, 10 years ago the district “streamlined” course offers by eliminating ALL honors and remedial classes. Everyone got lumped into one regular class. </p>
<p>This is more in line with the realities of public education in a great many places today.</p>
<p>Oh,and DH and I had to file a lawsuit to get the the local school district to allow D2 into an algebra class as 8th grader, despite teacher recommendations and testing data showing that’s <em>where</em> she needed to be. (And why we eventually pulled her out of public school because a year later district policy specifically required that she had to repeat algebra again in 9th grade because there were no procedures in place for putting a 9th grader into geometry. Policies also required she repeat Spanish 1 in high school despite having completed 3 years of Spanish in middle school.)</p>
<p>And don’t get me started in rural schools where math and science teacher routinely have less math and science education than I do! (And I was an Engllsh major! in fact, because I’ve had pre calc and calc1, 2 semesters of gen chem, I was eligible for math certification in math, chemistry and general science.)</p>
<p>D1 was appalled when she sat for state teacher’s licensing exam for math and watched other test-taker who had been working for years as math & science who had failed the exam 3 and 4 times count on theirs to solve rudimentary math problems that didn’t even involve algebra!</p>
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<p>How important is science and math to psychology , nursing , or midwifery (other carers I have thought about) . And BTW health science is to prepare students who want to go into fields like nursing and medicine.</p>
<p>It depends what branch of psychology you’re talking about. Social or clinical psychology. Both will require statistics. </p>
<p>Nursing (BSN level) and midwifery (assuming you mean a certified nurse-midwife) requires biology, chemistry, statistics, microbiology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, pharmacology, pathophysiology, nutrition.</p>
<p>WOWMom,</p>
<p>I understand what you’re saying I fully get that for some students, certain things are not available, but in OP’s case, it sounds like he/she is choosing to go light on the sciences not that they aren’t offered. Those are two very different things.</p>
<p>That’s exactly why I phrased my closing the way I did:</p>
<p>I therefore don’t think it’s so odd to say that it would look weird for the OP to write an essay about their passion for science without having taken AS MUCH SCIENCE AS WAS AVAILABLE TO THEM.</p>
<p>Would normal math and science suffice for nursing , or not taking the highest level of science offered negativity affect my chance of admission.</p>
<p>It depends what kind of nursing program you’re applying to. There are different levels:</p>
<p>LPN (licensed practical nurse) --usually a 2 year certificate program done at CC
[Licensed</a> practical nurse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensed_practical_nurse]Licensed”>Licensed practical nurse - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>RN (registered nurse)-- usually a 3 year specialized training program done at CC or nursing school
[Registered</a> nurse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_nurse]Registered”>Registered nurse - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>BSN (bachelor of science in nursing)— 4 year college degree completed at a college with a School of Nursing
[Bachelor</a> of Science in Nursing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science_in_Nursing]Bachelor”>Bachelor of Science in Nursing - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Nursing specialists (like nurse-midwife, nurse-anesthetist, and nurse-practioner)-- these are master’s or doctoral level degrees offered to BSNs with several years of nursing experience.</p>
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<p>Entry into BSN programs is extremely competitive. </p>
<p>Students are either admitted directly from high school (and you’ll need good grades and hard science classes) or after sophomore year and completing pre-req science classes at college. (Not all applicants are accepted into the nursing program. At our state flagship, students need about 3.8-3.9 GPA to get accepted into the final 2 years of the program.)</p>
<p>Thank you guys for answering my questions 
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