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I’d have to disagree with that. Last fall I was TA for an intro general physics course in which most of the 300+ students were Pharmacy major hopefuls. No one seems to know why pharmacy majors would need 2 semesters of hard-core physics, but that’s the requirement. And the tests were really difficult, so lots of people ended up with grades which were not acceptable to getting into the pharmacy program. Meanwhile, there are not enough slots in the pharmacy program for 300 new students, so it certainly appears to be a weed-out effort.</p>