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I didn't get accepted into the nursing program, so I'm going to try again. But this time, I'm also applying into another school's program, so I'm taking extra pre-reqs. I realized that for the second semester, I'm gonna have to take three science courses w/ lab: anatomy and physiology II (retaking), introductory microbiology, and introductory biology. The last two for pre-reqs to the other program. I'm so nervous about this. The most I've taken are 2 science courses, and I received a B in both courses. Do you these three classes taken at the same time are doable? And what is the most amount of science courses you've taken in one semester?

Yes, we are Americans, but we were immigrants. I feel like my mother is living her life through me, because she wanted to be a nurse and while she was young and in nursing back in our home country, some people teased her (these people dropped school when they were young) and said that they would test nursing students and lock them up with dead people, and she got freaked out and dropped the program. It's really stupid. My mother is also very hypocritical, telling her friends that she wants her children to do whatever they want to do in life, whatever that makes them happy, I confronted her about and she got really upset with me. I understand my parents wanting me to get a job and make money right after graduating, but a job right after graduation is not guaranteed, even in nursing.

They want me to be a nurse because it's in the healthcare field, job security, it's right after you graduate college, and the money.

I am currently a nursing major, sophomore year of college, and applying to the nursing program this coming Spring. I am in this field because it's mostly my family that's forcing me to become a nurse and won't support me at all (in whatever support I need) if I change my path, which makes me feel horrible. I didn't mind at first, but now I've decided that I really want to be a physician (specifically, oncologist). They tell me that if I want to be a doctor, I should take nursing first, then go become a doctor. I told them why that's not the smartest choice at all, despite the fact that some some people go that way, but those are usually people that wanted to be nurses first but changed their mind and wanted to go to medical school. I need more reasons why this isn't smart at all. I have that it'll be a waste of time and money to go back to school because you have to do med school pre-reqs. I told my parents this and they literally don't believe me. What are some other reasons I could tell them, to convince them, to prove them wrong?