People with non science majors

The first question is where are you in terms of credits and standing? If you have the funding, discipline, and school policy that allows you to use one class to cover more than one graduation requirement, you can manage both within 120-140 credits in 3 years but you will have to take classes over "summer" break and during interim periods to make 40 credits/year.

I was a dual major in political science and biomedical sciences, am a mom myself, married, and currently in dental school. Depending on how your school allows signing up for classes, an important aspect of major selection is seat limitations, elective availability, and priority. At many schools, seniors needing a requirement to graduate get first priority for registration and some electives, especially in biology are dependent on instructor availability. Among biology professors, most do engage in research and are likely to take sabbaticals or reduce teaching loads for their projects so you should keep that in mind.

IMO biology difficulty is dependent more on the individual course, school/departmental grading policy, and professor philosophy. Courses are only as hard as people want to make them but also as easy and accessible as a professor makes the material.

Also remember, you have an oGPA and sGPA. Typically, even though intro bio and gen chem are relatively easy intro courses, many schools make them harder but once you get past those two and ochem, it's pretty good from there.

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People with non science majors