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...sorry if this ruins any of your career plans." Organic chemistry is the most important of the five courses (the others include biology, physics, math, and an inorganic chemistry course) required for entrance to medical school. An A in Chem 20 virtually insures one of this nation's scarce med school places, an unsatisfactory grade virtually insures rejection...
...laboratory and lecture facilities; there are enough graduate students to act as qualified section leaders. There is no longer cause--if in fact there ever was--for Harvard to attempt to limit the size of a course that remains mandatory for those wishing to enter medical careers. Required pre-med courses represent a screening procedure in assigning students to the small number of vacancies in the nation's medical schools...
...University must produce a new pre-med plan to ameliorate the intense competition that turns many Harvard pre-meds into computers of recall that do not possess dedication to an America of healthier people, but rather, dedication to their individual "professional" careers. Pre-med students taking introductory biology, inorganic chemistry and physics have a choice of two routes to follow, thus alleviating some of the pressure caused by the existence of only one course. But even this system, as now conceived, discourages non-pre-med students and non-science concentrators from studying science except to fulfill lower-level...
Vujovic until recently had been enrolled in a pre-med program of study, but he changed his major to government this fall, and it was then that the problems leading to his departure first surfaced...
...instituted, the new program will probably require new facilities, new course offerings and new faculty, Dr. Fred C. Lane, dean of Students at the Med School said yesterday. "It's still a very embryonic thing, but I'm in favor of looking at it," he said...