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"Personality and character" are just as important for prospective doctors as scientific aptitude, Dr. William D. Beckman, chairman of the Admissions Committee at the Medical School, and three other men told a Winthrop House audience last night.
But sterling character is no substitute for top grades, especially with med school overcrowding, the speakers revealed. "Unless you get mostly B's with a sprinkling of A's while in college," said Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, "the going will be tough."
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