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According to Bossert, the problem is not limited to the natural sciences. Many top humanities concentrators are going to professional schools rather than graduate schools that might lead to careers in academia...
Charlene S. Ahn '98, a physics concentrator and a Goldwater Award winner, said she is planning to go to graduate school and enter a career in academia, despite the low number of female professors in the physics department...
...There are a lot of other things I could do if I couldn't make it in academia and it's not going to hurt to try," she said...
...Bard J. Geesaman, chair of the Quincy House pre-medical committee, said it might hurt recent college graduates to try a career in academia because it takes a long time to become established...
Geesaman, who advises about 50 pre-med students a year, said he tries to give them a realistic picture of the challenges of going into academia...