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...grading policy in Chem 20 also has serious faults. When the Harvard median is a B minus, half the Harvard premeds are automatically in serious trouble. The professors refuse to realize that any grade below a B minus virtually insures rejection from medical school (everyone is quick to think of the exceptions, but that just shows how rare they are). The professors are neglecting the national aspect of medical school admissions. Although this is Harvard University, most medical schools across the country do not give special consideration to this fact. They do not have the time to investigate the particular...
...highly motivated and best balanced students I have ever seen. Nevertheless, some of the students were poorly prepared, inadequately motivated or lacked natural ability for science, or for some other reason did not come up to a reasonable level, as judged by national standards. I doubt that inflating the grades in the course could be hidden from the medical schools for more than a year or two, and suspect the practice would boomerang. Your editorial states that a high grade in Chem 20 "insures" that a student will get into medical school; if this is so, it suggests that medical...
Died. Tim Holt, 54, straight-shooting hero of scores of grade-B movie westerns who occasionally starred in better roles (as the greenhorn prospector in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the grandson in The Magnificent Ambersons); of cancer; in Shawnee, Okla...
Applicants' LSATs and grade-point averages have also been increasing recently, James Bierman, associate director of Law School Admissions, said yesterday...
...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...