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...and that's very typical,"
said Joseph Pisano, Tulane's associate dean of medical school admissions.
"They're getting ulcers over this."
Chatter on the Web site http://www.studentdoctor.net
has been devoted to hand-wringing and incredulity. One contributor said
it is a miracle that no one has filed a class-action lawsuit.
"I didn't think this whole
thing could get any worse," said another correspondent at the site's
online bulletin board, "but it seems to be getting worse by the second."
The idea behind the clearinghouse--which
for years involved copious paperwork, then computer disks--is that instead
of applying to each individual medical school, students submit a master
application...
