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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The flood of white tears in this thread is amazing. Of all the problems minority kids face today, this is what you guys cry about.

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The disdain for white folks in this thread, who lose college seats to those less qualified, is amazing. I wonder if the bigota going on about "white trash" are black?

And being kept out of med school, a lifelong dream, so that a lesser scoring minority gets in instead of you is a big deal. [/quote]

I have been back and forth to Georgetown Hospital for a year and the place is crawling with med students.  Most of them are white, Asian, or East Asian  Indian.  I met only one black student.   Do all schools have to have this quota?  [/quote]
So you're experience with one teaching hospital overrides the extensive data produced by the MCAT administrators that clearly show how standards are lowered to admit black students (who would be laughed out of there if they were white)?

Many med schools find themselves in a quandary. They set "goals" to have URMs at their representative levels of the general population - so if 14% of kids are black, they want 14% of their med school class to be black. Thus they lower the required scores, lower and lower, until they can get more in. The problem of course is that if you drop the cut-off too low, you risk the reputation and caliber of the school. It's an actual dilemma.

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