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Dear Hottie, People throw around many made- up statistics at Harvard: one out of every four freshmen come into college as pre-med, 75 percent of Harvard kids marry other Harvard kids, with 80 percent of those marriages stemming from the five-year reunion. Although these are plausible, one I would not believe is that many Harvard students dream about being a universal sex symbol. Universal sex symbol and Harvard diploma? To paraphrase Hugh Grant in “Love Actually”—Um, would we call that an oxymoron...
...just been elected next year’s co-captain of the women’s team. “They’re both good enough to train and continue into [Adults],” she said. “But they’re both also pre-med and have a lot on their plates. Still, you never know.” —ALEXANDRA C. BELL
Hoping to heal the human body, Harvard pre-meds are learning that applying to medical school can cost an arm and a leg. A typical Harvard undergraduate applying to medical school can rack up more than $6,000 in costs for applications, the MCAT, test prep, and travel costs for interviews, according to students and advisers. While some resources are available for undergraduates from low-income backgrounds, including loans from the Harvard Financial Aid Office, many applicants do not qualify for application fee waivers and medical schools do not offer financial aid for students not yet enrolled. These expenses...
...each to crowd into a basement lecture hall on the Providence campus to hear jokes about race, sex, pop culture and their generation's ambivalent feelings about current events. "My friends are fasting for Darfur, and I'm like, is that like Ramadan?" riffed Christine Sunu, 19, a pre-med student. "Free Tibet? Did it cost anything...
...with a capital D. The girl next to me got the word measles, and I left the stage tearfully.I promise I’ve moved on.Since the event seven years ago, I have hardly thought about my experience in the spelling bee. As a pre-med, I now know what an embolism is, and how to spell it, but I had rarely thought about how that one word, and the whole experience in general, made a difference in my life until a recent string of unrelated spelling events. I often debate with friends of mine about the value of spelling...