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Clark has a field day with Tyler, who ends up looking more like a volleyball instructor from Club Med than like the Mayor of New York City. Replete with Soloflex and cocoa-butter tan, Tyler skips from one social engagement to the next with nary a thought for such inessentials as city business and mayoral responsibilities. Certainly none could object to Jimmy dragging his name though the mud but considering his totally asinine personality, such actions seem unwarranted and excessive...
Several causes may be cited for these discouraging figures, but one reason may be the all-or-nothing character of the typical pre-med education. In other words, students who need to secure a career and earn money as quickly as possible may find it difficult to stake their hopes on the typical pre-med preparation which will present them only with long-shot admissions adds. Because less than half the pre-med students in the country are admitted to medical schools, it would make more sense for them to direct their efforts to a more secure and immediately rewarding...
Surely no one should seriously consider a lowering of admissions standards for medical schools. Only those who demonstrate that they are qualified to be physically should receive the necessary education. Still, there must be a better way to provide under-represented groups with pre-med training other than the traditionally high pressure, low success pre-med take course. Such a method must at the same time address that need for career security...
...pace, moreover, was more leisurely than the traditional pre-med program. For example, a one semester course was spread over 15 weeks, a luxury not possible in the typically crammed medical school curricula. In the end, however, the theoretical content covered in the courses was similar to that covered in many of the traditional medical school programs...
While this example may seem irrelevant to Harvard pre-med students, who can feel fairly secure about their chances of getting into medical school, they must remember that once they enter the select medical community they face obligations other than practicing medicine. And among these, one of the most important is to improve the overall state of their profession...