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Michael R. Tranfaglia ’82 was never just an average Harvard pre-med...
...psychology and the biological anthropology concentration in Anthropology. While as a whole, this step was a well-planned movement to provide smaller concentrations to students, one problem existed: HEB was identical to biological anthropology in every way except that it replaced social anthropology and archaeology requirements with pre-med classes...
...obvious effect was a flight of pre-med students who would have potentially concentrated in the interdisciplinary biological anthropology to the HEB, which is little more than concentrating in pre-med. Overnight, BioAnthro quietly started to fade into that sacred elephant-burial ground where concentrations go to die. All the biological anthropology classes from the tutorials on up have been renumbered to HEB classes. Students who attempted to get a study card signed for biological anthropology were encouraged by the department to strongly consider HEB. As a result, biological anthropology has gone from a small but lively concentration...
...concentration and others of its size, “is listen to what the student is interested in.”“A lot of people can get lost in [larger] concentrations” says Sarah H. Arshad ’09, who is pre-med and a folklore and mythology concentrator. “I feel like my adviser cares about what I’m doing and she wants to make sure I’m doing well.”SIZE DOES MATTERBut small concentrations may not always mean a better experience in every aspect.While...
...past four years, Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo ’07 has been so busy with dance and pre-med classes that she’s traded in her nights of “Salsa dancing” for “sleeping.” Montoya-Fontalvo’s new definition of class is “a person who comes out of a hard situation with their head up.” Next year, she sets off for Columbia Medical School, ready to move on to bigger and better things. “I am moving...