Medical Schools: White? We Don’t Want You |
These days, it should surprise nobody that DEI rules in medical schools. Compact Magazine: So I did what failed applicants are told to do: I sought feedback. Eventually, I spoke with an admissions officer at one of the schools that rejected me. He told me that I was extremely qualified and had everything the school looked for in an applicant. He said he couldn’t give me a concrete reason I wasn’t accepted, other than that I didn’t fit the demographic the school was prioritizing, and that other applicants were viewed as having “traveled a longer distance” to medicine. My application, he said, was evaluated through that lens. That conversation unsettled me in a way I didn’t immediately recognize. I was being told I was qualified, capable, and deserving but simultaneously that those qualities were not enough due to certain immutable characteristics. I had spent years learning about discrimination as something that happened to other people. Nothing in my education had prepared me to think that it could happen to people like me. Then it did. Perhaps I should have seen it coming. The requirements for admission into medical school vary markedly depending on who the applicant is. According to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the academic thresholds required for acceptance differ substantially between racial groups. The average MCAT score of a white applicant who is accepted into a medical school is 512.4, approximately the 85th percentile nationally. By contrast, the average MCAT score for accepted American Indian applicants is 502.2 (56th percentile), for accepted black applicants 505.7 (67th percentile), and for accepted Hispanic applicants 506.4 (69th percentile). (Compact Magazine). |
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Why does skin color make a difference? Unless medical schools believe some races are inferior to others, or that some races are superior to others?
I suppose the left sees color as an advantage in numbers for votes, more of them over the globe than whites! I never checked, but wonder where whites are on that scale?
Shouldnt it be simply dependent on the applicant's scores, may the highest scores get in?
When this DEI crap began, the law schools instituted remedial writing. Read that years ago.