Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Besides medical school and humanities concentration requirements, Mitchell and her fellow pre-meds say their schedules are further constrained by Core requirements, which take up eight half-courses...
...Science A and Science B are taken care of by certain pre-med courses, but at the same time, it's difficult when you think that a quarter of your classes is devoted to the Core, half [of your classes] is devoted to your concentration and the rest is devoted to your pre-med requirements," Mitchell says. "If I wanted to continue with honors English, I would have something like -2 electives...
...Core: Bane or Blessing...
...came in wanting to be pre-med and [to] concentrate in English, but I got discouraged because I realized that it was going to take up all of my time, and it wasn't worth it," Ankur N. Ghosh '01 says. "If the Core were smaller, I think I might have done the pre-med requirements, but I knew that would never happen, because Harvard is a slave to the Core." Ghosh is now an English concentrator with no plans toward pursuing a medical degree...
Rupani says she deals with her courseload constraints by viewing the Core requirements as her electives. "For someone like me, who's already so limited, it forces me to take courses that I wouldn't ordinarily," she says...