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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]

Why won't medical schools go test optional? What makes them different from any other educational institution? They absolutely care about diversity.
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What's next?  A MD's board exam going optional when med students are now trash because they got rid of standards for med school?  Have fun going in for a surgery with a doc who no longer has to demonstrate mastery of knowledge and surgery because we did away with board exams and licensing. Bat S insane. [/quote]

You clearly have never to been a crappy doctor that went to some fancy medical school.[/quote]

Yes, there are a very very small number of them now. But then you will have many of them crappy.[/quote]

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