Word: meds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper work he must handle, the professor must conjure up impressions of students who took Biology 1 as long ago as three years. For this he relies on reports submitted by the student's lab man at the time and on a short interview with the pre-med when he presents his recommendation forms...
...professors in other basic science courses also have their problems with pre-med endorsements. Chemistry 1 depends to a great extent on reports filed by the applicant's lab man backed up, as in Biology 1, with a short student interview when he comes in to submit his application forms. Professor Rochow, however, ignores the forms issued by some medical schools in favor of a personal letter...
...notice that the author of your editorial "Pre-Med Muddle," in the CRIMSON of Friday, November 7th, makes no reference to the Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences. It should be noted that, although the Board of Tutors is primarily concerned with concentrators in Biochemical Sciences, members of the Board frequently confer with students concentrating in other fields who plan to apply for admission to Medical School, and are prepared to do so in other cases by appointment with students who wish to see them. Appointments can be made at 27 Holyoke House between 9 A.M. and 1 P.M., Monday...
These fits and starts of panic, however, are not the most important consequence of the College's oblivious attitude toward the pre-med. Medical schools themselves are growing exasperated with what they term Harvard's "laissez-faire"; the dean of Cornell Medical School last week exploded to an applicant from Harvard, "Why in the world do they let you drift along like that for three years up there and then expect you to get accepted." Boston University Medical School says the same. Even the Dean of Harvard's own Medical School feels that pre-med advising in the College...
...University should appoint an Adviser to Pre-Medical Students who would be free of other administrative burdens. Such an adviser would be a great help to medical schools seeking information about applicants, for he will have followed their progress through three years of colleges. More important, a Pre-Med Advisor would still the fears of quivering pre-meds and quiet the medical school rumbles about Harvard's "laissez-faire" policy...