52 pages 1 hour read

George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, Sharon M. Draper

We Beat the Street: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2005

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Chapters 19-22

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Chapter 19 Summary: “For the First Time Since High School, The Three of Us Won’t Be Together”

When Sampson and Rameck get into Access Med, a program that transitions them from pre-med students at Seton Hall to medical students at Rutgers and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, they know they are parting ways with George, who is headed to the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark. Though all three are exemplary students and well prepared for the challenges ahead academically, Sampson begins to have some doubts, which he expresses to George and Rameck. Fear of being outside of the classroom and in a hospital, treating patients and having to study for many more years, prompts Sampson to wonder if he made the right choice. The friends talk George through his doubts over the phone and on weekends, as George makes the transition to dental school. To please one professor, he has to learn how to tie a tie, so he can come properly dressed for each class. George also realizes that he has changed a great deal when he is back in his own neighborhood and puts casual faith into a passenger-by, who mugs him. George sees how much his view of the world has changed while living on a safe and nurturing college campus.

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