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NORTH OF HARVARD Yard a temple--or a ghetto--has been built for pre-meds. The Undergraduate Science Center opened last year, and like many pre-meds here, the building sits uncomfortably between the domains of the traditional Harvard Science departments. Perhaps it says something about the distances between academic departments that a building as big as the Science Center could fall between them, and perhaps it says something about Harvard that a group of people the size of the local pre-med population could collectively find themselves the uncomfortable step-children of the Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology Departments...
...business students do not face the pressures that pre-med students must. Law schools impose their own particular brand of hell--the Law School Aptitude Tests (LSATs)--but it is a much shorter one, lasting only an afternoon, rather than the nine months of Chem 20 (Harvard's frantically competitive organic chemistry course...
...applying to medical school that most people don't know about. It's a big game and you've got to squeeze all your qualifications into the application, and Funkenstein knows exactly how to do it." He too got work through Funkenstein, after failure to gain acceptance to med school this spring...
Funkenstein hinted at the wide range of connections he maintains. "One Radcliffe girl from California I told to find work at a med school in Los Angeles," he said. "I told her some of the people to look up and talked about what courses to take at UCLA...
...more tailored look, and they are cleaner. You can't categorize them by any group style, however, because there doesn't seem to be any. The Look has diffused and the Role along with it. They have largely abandoned collective political action for more individualized pursuits, study, pre-med, pre-law, etc. Neither can you stamp a personality according to political affiliation any more because so many cliques have spintered or meshed with each other. There are sexists in the Socialist camp and militants among the sexists; you find Feminists who won't vote, and more and more...