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...Crimson editorial of Feb. 21 criticizes Chem 20 as "defeating doctors." The editors are, I believe, misinformed and mistaken...
...course's "sympathetic" instructors apologized with a curt "We're sorry if this ruins any of your career plans." Organic chemistry is the most important of the five courses (the others include biology, physics, math, and an inorganic chemistry course) required for entrance to medical school. An A in Chem 20 virtually insures one of this nation's scarce med school places, an unsatisfactory grade virtually insures rejection...
...Chem 20 grading curve--significantly out of kilter with normal Harvard grading--illustrates one way in which Harvard reinforces restrictive medical school admissions policies. In view of the tremendous need for well trained and dedicated physicians and health care specialists, the University should encourage, not discourage, pre-medical studies. The completion of the new undergraduate science center provides ample laboratory and lecture facilities; there are enough graduate students to act as qualified section leaders. There is no longer cause--if in fact there ever was--for Harvard to attempt to limit the size of a course that remains mandatory...
Several teaching fellows said they were disturbed that they were not consulted to help decide grades in borderline cases, as Chem 20 professors have done in the past...
...think they've made the course too competitive. For the amount of time people put into the course, the median should not have been C+. I think they foster the atmosphere of competitiveness," D. Jill Joyce '75, a Chem 20 student, said yesterday...