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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean this gently - if she cannot keep up with a quarter system, she cannot go to medical skill and be a doctor. land the helicopter and let her decide where to go to school. [/quote]

Agree. Medical school is like drinking from a firehose. The pace is extraordinarily fast. I say this as a former ivy student who went to a top med school with 99.9%ile on my MCAT and almost every other test I took. I am a fast processor and it felt like a different level from ivy undergrad pace. [/quote]
Completely disagree. Yes, it is a ton of work and extremely fast pace, but the difference between an individual entering undergrad and leaving undergrad should be pretty dramatic, and you're becoming an adult developmentally. Every MD professor has received a firehouse education; most quarter systems professors have never gone to a college with a quarter system, and this affects the teaching. There is no evidence that students on the quarter system do better than those on the semester system when they arrive at Medical school. There's nothing wrong with having a slower, more solid foundation.[/quote]

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