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...take a patient's blood pressure. Teachers counsel kids on goals and career paths, and career coordinators help place them in internships with hospitals, medical practices and physical-therapy centers. In their second year, students are given lessons more customized to their career track. Those thinking about college pre-med are urged to take advanced biology, while those aspiring toward other medical careers, such as physical therapy or nursing, are offered more practical training...
That attitude is changing. Last year for the first time, U.S. med-school applicants ages 24 and older outnumbered those who applied at the traditional ages of 21 to 23. The older students aren't just kids who take a year or two off after college; a growing number are folks like me who pursued another career before deciding to become a doctor. My classmates are as old as 46 and include a former actress, a bond trader, an engineer, a lawyer, the manager of an auto-parts store, a single mom and a tax expert for the U.S. Treasury...
...year-old pre-med student who sported a ginger-colored Johnny Rotten hairdo, hailed Richard Hatch as his hero. "He did what he had to do to win." Fan was prepared to do everything Richard had done "except get naked...
...Losers PIN CHAKKAPHAK U.K. court approves Thai financier's extradition. That whole Asian financial crisis? His fault BANGARU LAXMAN Still time for med school. Prez of India's ruling party caught on camera accepting bribes MIR Russian space station crashing below the 2000 level?no, wait, that's the NASDAQ Verbatim...
...senior pre-med History of Science concentrator with roommates who are concentrating in Social Studies and Philosophy, I have seen a wide array of classes and feel that I have learned the Harvard system. Sometimes students do work very hard for top grades; sometimes we do little or nothing and still get top grades; and sometimes we put in a lot and the grade doesn't reflect that. If anything, Harvard's grading system is whimsical or unpredictable, not as generous as the 'grade inflation' theory implies...