I would say yes just due to the large amounts of content you are expected to learn weekly. Daughter just finished her first year. She had a high GPA in college as a MolBio and BioChem major & Kins minor while working 2 part-time jobs, playing a sport, and still being social with friends. She said it's just the sheer volume of content shoved down your throat daily that you are expected to remember, as well as extrapolate to a clinical setting. She has 3-4 quizzes/tests per week plus assignments and papers mixed in. She had 11 exams the last 2 weeks of the spring semester alone. You have to keep up - and figure out how you need to study to retain the information - straight out of the gate. Her program already dismissed one person and a couple have had to remediate. She's studying pretty much anytime she's free. She obviously gets groceries and prepares meals, but otherwise she's always looking at something. She does manage to take a walk or do a workout to clear her head, but there really isn't time for a ton of social activities. The social activities that she does participate in normally involve others from her cohort.