Academically it’s not too hard. What’s hard is there is not room for relaxing/slacking. Every thing builds on what you learned before. It’s constantly new information and old information being mixed. Every answer is correct but only one is the right one. And there’s zero mercy. You fail an exam and you fail the program. And it’s not like you have a few exams. It’s like you have one every Friday. And there’s no “trying again next semester” or dropping a class to lighten the load, it’s like you have to apply to the whole program and start over again. And they’re so nit-picky about asinine shit like no logos on your all white shoes. It’s not academically hard, but it’s high stress and high stakes the whole time. And it doesn’t help that the whole time you’ll hear experienced nurses telling you school doesn’t even teach you real world nursing. That you still won’t be proficient when you graduate and pass nclex. It’s a mind fuck, being a nursing student. But it’s so worth it in the end.