<p>I take offense to most of the stuff in there. I’m pre-med, many of my friends are pre-med, we get the highest scores on the tests because we help each other. We wouldn’t be in this without intellectual curiosity, the opposite just seems true a lot of the time because of all the stupid pre-req’s we have to take. Personally I’ve participated in a lot of research in my favorite field (neuroscience) and have let my reqs take a back seat so that I could take interesting classes in psychology, history, international relations, neuroscience…the list goes on. I know the stereotype of the hyper-competitive lame pre-med student who will do anything for a grade but I just don’t know where it comes from.</p>