That's definitely the idea with a lot of these classes, but I think it filters out a lot of people who'd be great in chemistry or other STEM fields, but can't d

That's definitely the idea with a lot of these classes, but I think it filters out a lot of people who'd be great in chemistry or other STEM fields, but can't deal with lots of rote memorization and such. One of the best programmers I know originally was going to do chemistry, but inorganic chemistry pretty much gave him a mental breakdown and he switched to the liberal arts. Of course he naturally gravitated back into quantitative things (no formal CS education), but that was a lot of wasted education and prime 20's work years.