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...begins during the first year at Harvard: to be pre-med or not pre-med? If you have known since you were in your mother's womb that you wanted to be a doctor, then this is no biggie. But if you want to practice medicine, and yet you also love American history or French literature or John Locke, then this decision is monumental. Essentially it asks: Do I hereby hand over a significant portion of my college education to some intro-level science and math courses which will be tremendous sources of frustration and boredom? Or, phrased more generally...
Juggling the pre-med act with a non-science concentration can leave you regretful of the mediocre freshman seminar you took, a wasted elective. If only you had known the summer before your first year that a meaningless pass/fail class would mean one less elective when you were older. Or let's go back even earlier--if only you had known in high school that you would want to be pre-med and then had taken some chemistry, biology, math or physics AP tests so as to open more slots in college...
...Currier, the house notorious for being randomized, has a distinct character. It's not pre-med or athletic or gay; it's friendly. It's a place where the best ideals of the College come into play, because there are students of all different sizes, thoughts and backgrounds...
...recent years, Pforzheimer House attracted a large minority and pre-med population which has, in turn, shaped the house's character...
...although as much as 60 percent of the senior class has been pre-med and the house boasts "a very large minority community," according to Co-master Hanna Hastings, building a community not centered on any particular group will not be as difficult as when she first began...