Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...careers of 1,390 Harvard students who went on to medical school from 1949-56: grades and academic honors weigh heavily in determining admission to medical school, but a student's choice of major-assuming he has met minimum science requirements-has no bearing. Writes Author Dean K. Whitla, director of Harvard's office of tests: "It would be regrettable if some of our students who plan to become doctors felt that they must turn away from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school without a premedical major." Surprise...
Medical schools, writes Whitla, have become increasingly more aware of the importance of liberal arts backgrounds. But at Harvard, at least, the students have not; in 1949, 47% of those who went on to medical school took premed courses; by 1956, the last year the report covers, 67% were premed majors. For future physicians, some comments from the men in charge of admissions at five other major medical schools...
...study, administered to graduates of classes of 1949 to 1956 by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, also revealed that senior grades in college gave the best forecast of medical school grades for public school graduates. For graduates of private secondary schools, the Medical College Admission Test provided a better prediction of medical school marks, the test shows...
While seniors in most of the Natural Sciences are judged only by their course grades, students in the five low fields face the additional obstacles of theses and general examinations. The Whitla report noted, in addition, that "even if grades were used as the only criterion, Social Science graduates would not receive in relation to their ability the same percentage of highest honor degrees...
...study, prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, and submitted to the Faculty last Tuesday, showed that only 1.3 per cent of Social Sciences students receive degrees with highest honors, as opposed to 6.9 per cent in the Natural Sciences and 3.6 per cent in the Humanities...