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<p>So how did you hear about people “stealing dissections materials/subjects”, since you are not directly affected. Your whole argument is that me and the other posters haven’t heard of such things, because we weren’t directly affected, but then again neither were you.</p>
<p>Anyway I agree that there may be SOME of this going on, just not as much as you think. </p>
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<p>^^ I have been the same situation so far, I never had to “check out” a book, but just access them online.</p>
<p>I’m startled that a professor would assign just a couple chapters of a book and expect students to go to a library and look at it. Wouldn’t they just… not assign that? Even sabotage aside, if a library only has a couple of reserve copies then most of the students aren’t going to be able to do the reading anyway.</p>
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<p>Whatever, this isn’t really the point. I heard about lots of this sort of thing happening a long time ago, but I haven’t heard any direct stories within the past twenty or so years.</p>
<p>*I wonder if there’s some kind of public/private distinction going on here. At least at Duke, if anything like this had happened an awful lot of premeds would have known pretty quickly. Large institutions have less of a collaborative feel, perhaps?
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<p>Could be…my niece was at a large UC. She experienced a few really bizarre things. I think there is tremendous pre-med pressure at the UCs since so many want to get into the top UC med schools. </p>
<p>However, my son who is at a large public in another state doesn’t feel any of this at all.</p>
<p>*I’m startled that a professor would assign just a couple chapters of a book and expect students to go to a library and look at it. Wouldn’t they just… not assign that? Even sabotage aside, if a library only has a couple of reserve copies then most of the students aren’t going to be able to do the reading anyway.
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<p>I agree…a prof would have to be an idiot to assign something that required 30+ kids to find in a couple of books at the school’s library.</p>
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“So how did you hear about people “stealing dissections materials/subjects”, since you are not directly affected.”</p>
<p>-This is your assumption. I have never said that. My D. and few others in her class got their semi-dissected animals stolen. Of course, she talked to us about it, she did not go around the campus compalining about it. She just got another animal and had to catch up to the rest of the class. My stand on this issue is based on D’s experience, otherwise I would not be even talking.</p>
<p>Vossron, </p>
<p>I’d say Reed’s 80% rate is very good. Brown’s is 81%. </p>
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<p>Does anyone else care to offer their opinion?</p>
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The majority of students they recruit were good academically (and likely good at ECs also) in high school.</p>
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Many students from there tend to be better off (most can afford a gap year or two, and are capable of lining up meaningful activities instead of just waiting tables during that gap year) and they may be well informed on how to pursue this career path and have means (time, resources) to do it. The freedom of choosing classes means 1) good for maintaining a good GPA 2) more freedom to pursue ECs medical school adcoms like to see. My guess is that they may have a quite diversified student body (do not refer to URM here, rather, refer to the varied academic/EC capabilities/interests – opposite of the premed part of a school like UCs, JHU). These are all good signs.</p>
<p>I also notice there are not too many (and not too few) from that school pursuing the medical career (only 190?). This may be good too. – You would not expect the main character in Harry Potter’s movies would go premed, right?! She has a much better career to pursue, or she does not need any career any more.</p>
<p>Do not know much about Reed.</p>
<p>Haha – she’s not the main character!</p>
<p>lol @ Harry Potter!</p>
<p>But in all seriousness, this was really helpful! Thank you guys so much. Brown is now at the top of my list! Of course now I have to improve everything to get in, but if I do, it will be so worth it! It looks like a good pre-med program, the school itself is held to an extremely high standard, and from what I hear it is very chill. :)</p>
<p>My parents kinda laughed Reed off, so that can’t be a good sign… I guess I’m staying on the east coast for college… :/</p>
<p>Relaxed Pre-Med Schools?!?!</p>
<p>Why is it that every time I see this thread’s title I picture students laying around on chaise lounges eating fruit/drinking wine while half-listening to some prof lecturing from afar?</p>
<p>Because you’re picturing Duke. :D</p>
<p>Duke? With all those uptight “Southerners”? Psh. </p>
<p>Come to Missouri–more likely to find a keg on the quad than wine and chaise lounges–but the midwest sure could be the poster child for relaxed. :)</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Nah…</p>
<p>If it was a relaxed pre-med southern school, the image would be…</p>
<p>preppy dressed kids with Oakleys on a croakie, sitting on lawn chairs with mugs in one hand and buffalo wings in the other…and the prof? … he’d be tapping the keg while providing the medical explanation of the beer goggle effect.</p>
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Yep. That’s us. :D</p>