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The vast majority of spots at competitive colleges will go to white kids. They will continue on their easy path of upward mobility. Why are you so focused on the handful of spots that go to URMs? What about other spots at those colleges that go to other kids with lesser grades? Don't hear you complaining once about them.

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+1     I recently talked to a white acquaintance who said her 13 year old daughter is interested in going to medical school, but "she probably won't get in because affirmative action will give all the spots to blacks".       She has her excuses ready 10 years in advance!     &lt;sarcasm&gt; After all, affirmative action is the only possible reason why she couldn't get in medical school &lt;\sarcasm&gt;
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No, your acquaintance probably read the AAMC charts that showed how difficult it is for whites to get in. (And if she's Asian, it's even worse.) It's actually quite discouraging to see how blacks with a B average get into medical school and whites with an A- average have to kiss their dream of becoming a doctor goodbye - unless they go to some crap Caribbean school.

When I meet a white doctor who recently graduated, I know how smart he must be. He had all the odds stacked against him, and still he made it.  [/quote]

No my acquaintance is an idiot.       There are 3% fewer slots for white applicants because of AA.[/quote]
Link to your nonsense?

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The black population is 7.3% of medical schools so that is the maximum size of the effect.      
(https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/04/673318859/the-push-for-diversity-in-medical-school-is-slowly-paying-off)    There have been quotes here that 2/3 of black medical students would not have gotten in without affirmative action.      That seems high to me but lets take it as gospel.   Then 7.3*2/3 = 4.9% of spots are being reserved by affirmative action.         So 95% of whites would still get into medical school whether  affirmative action exists or not.

It is not ideal that medical schools have to consider skin color.       But it is the right thing for now because

(1)  There is overwhelming evidence that black patients are not treated as well as white patients by white doctors.     The purpose of medical schools is to supply healers for all the population.   To achieve this goal we need more black doctors.
(2)  There is overwhelming evidence that black doctors face more discrimination all through their career.     (See the previous post about black doctors salaries.)

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