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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Explain why Asians have to score higher than everyone else on the MCAT and have to have significantly higher GPAs than certain groups in order to get into medical school:

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It is literally using race to hold people to different standards.  Which is racism. [/quote]

There is not one school in the country that is saying Asians must have higher scores and GPAs in order to be admitted. Because that WOULD be racism. You're just making that assumption based on others with lower numbers being admitted. But the reason they're admitted is because they offer something else the college values, not because they're not Asian.[/quote]

If the thing that they offer is diversity, then the higher scoring students are being denied admission based on race. If this case goes the way people expect it to, those scores will either turn into acceptances next year or very expensive settlements [/quote]

Agree with you on what the Supreme Court will do, but not on the consequences. All these schools will go test optional (conveniently many are already there with Covid) and then the disparate racial standards will never be so clear and quantifiable again. No more lawsuits.[/quote]

PP posted MCAT scores. Medical schools will not go test optional. Some will stop trying to achieve a diverse class. Those that don't will start getting sued. [/quote]

Yes they will.[/quote]
DP.. I prefer going to a doctor who had decent MCAT scores, not one would've failed MCAT.[/quote]

Go to whatever doctor you choose. That is fine.

But I am just saying that these educational institution are not going to just give up on diversity if they think it is an integral part of their educational mission.   If they can't consider race they will adjust and find other criteria to use to fulfill their mission.[/quote]
ok but they have to have *some* standards, so why not MCAT? Why drop it.

BTW, my previous PCP was a black lady. Loved her, but she quit practice to go into policy dealing with holistic care.[/quote]

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