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...turn toward pre-med study--Harvard's manifestation of a general national trend into the health professions--is very recent, so recent that OG&CP figures (based on the career preferences of graduating seniors) do not yet show the shift. But enrollment in the pre-med core curriculum have skyrocketed in the last two years, and the pre-med concentrations--biology, biochemistry and chemistry--have grown dramatically. Chem 20 is so big that the Chemistry Department has begun to exclude people from...
Terry Walsh, of the Bureau of Study Counsel and Currier House's new pre-med advisor, divides pre-meds into three groups. The first encompasses people who are genuinely interested in the natural sciences, plan to go to medical school, and are in no way troubled by the pre-med requirements because they would take the courses anyway...
...MED students at Harvard are probably worst caught in the squeeze, since the competition for med school places is bad. They are the students who must take vocational training while in college--the five courses all medical schools require of applicants...
...stories contribute to the generally bad reputation pre-meds acquire. The stereotype of a pre-med as an incredibly competitive, point-grubbing individual who is in medicine for the money may miss the mark. But anyone who agressively advertises himself as a pre-med will probably be detested...
...second set of people includes those not interested in the natural sciences, who take their pre-med requirements in a fifth year as a special student. By concentrating in an area he genuinely likes, this pre-med will presumably compile a better track record than he would if he studied in one of the areas traditionally thought to appeal to med schools (such as biology or chemistry...