Word: meds
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...med. The word can say everything and nothing about the academic interests and plans of a student. With the extensive requirements necessary for medical school, the decision to be "pre-med" can often be fraught with tension and uncertainty. When asked if he were a "pre-med," Eugene T. Kim '01 says only half-jokingly, "Ask again after sophomore year. If I say I'm still pre-med, then I really...
Without a pre-med track available, Harvard leaves the choice of concentration up to its students. Pre-med students who concentrate in the humanities say they are encouraged to pursue their interest in non-scientific fields, but must forgo electives in order to complete their medical school requirements, which include a full year of biology, chemistry and physics, plus laboratory experience, organic chemistry and some sort of mathematics...
...taken one elective, and that was a mistake because now I have to take pre-med classes over the summer," says Tarissa Mitchell '99, a pre-med English concentrator...
...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...
First-years who enter as humanities concentrators in pursuit of a medical degree often decide not to follow through with their pre-med aspirations...