Trip report: Bates, Bowdoin & Colby

jmmom
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:54:11 +0000

mini - point well taken (post #26). I have to admit that the whole pre-med thing with screening committees and (effectively) caps on # who will be recommended forward is Greek to me. Hadn’t been aware of it prior to reading a bit here on cc, and haven’t paid attention to it since it’s not relevant to our family.

When it’s a zero-sum game, which is what you outline, I think some form of competitiveness across students has to be inevitable. My observations relate to situations where it isn’t a zero-sum game and some stereotypes say that students behave as though it is. That I have not seen.