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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now.....what I have just discovered is very interesting.

The AAMC, a very liberal organization, used to have charts that showed the acceptance rates, broken down by race, for any given combination of grades and MCAT scores. So, for example, you could look up and see what happened to a student with a 37 MCAT score (I think they have a new test so the points might be different) and a 3.6 GPA, broken down by race. You'd see that for that combo, 88% of black applicants were accepted to medical school, whereas only 45% of white students were. If you went down, to a combined 35 MCAT/3.4 GPA, you'd see that 60% of blacks were accepted, and only 25% of whites. You could drop even further, and find that a lousy MCAT score of 32 and a GPA of 3.2, you still had 20% of blacks getting in and ZERO whites.

But apparently, they are not disclosing that any longer. It brings to the forefront the inequity of what we are discussing here - that black kids who were decent but not exceptional college students overwhelmingly get into med school, and that white kids who were better overwhelmingly do not.

When you have to hide the results of liberal policies because the outcome screams "unfair!," you know something is wrong.

(If someone else can find the comparison chart - showing black/white acceptance rates by "cell" (the cell being the MCAT/GPA score), please post it. I couldn't find it, unless it's buried in the weeds somewhere.[/quote]

Maybe as part of an amicus brief somewhere?
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