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...Science A and Science B are taken care of by certain pre-med courses, but at the same time, it's difficult when you think that a quarter of your classes is devoted to the Core, half [of your classes] is devoted to your concentration and the rest is devoted to your pre-med requirements," Mitchell says. "If I wanted to continue with honors English, I would have something like -2 electives...
First-years who enter as humanities concentrators in pursuit of a medical degree often decide not to follow through with their pre-med aspirations...
...came in wanting to be pre-med and [to] concentrate in English, but I got discouraged because I realized that it was going to take up all of my time, and it wasn't worth it," Ankur N. Ghosh '01 says. "If the Core were smaller, I think I might have done the pre-med requirements, but I knew that would never happen, because Harvard is a slave to the Core." Ghosh is now an English concentrator with no plans toward pursuing a medical degree...
Tricia L. Morente '01 agrees that it is frustrating to "have no electives or to waste away my summer taking science courses to free up space in my schedule." Thus, Morente says she has decided to concentrate in economics or history without the hassle of taking pre-med classes as well...
...think it [Harvard] does structure it so that it's really hard to swing pre-med and not be a science concentrator," says Christine M. Heske '01, a pre-med anthropology concentrator. "I know a lot of people that have dropped pre-med since it eats up time and electives, but I think it is a good thing because it makes you realize whether you really want to put in that much of a commitment before it's too late...