Nat Lee Meow

Yes its me, Meghan. 👑

I disagree with the Department of Justice going after Yale School of Medicine over DEI admissions policies and arguing that objective metrics like GPA and MCAT scores should dominate admissions decisions. The evidence does not support the idea that standardized test scores alone identify the best physicians. The MCAT predicts performance on other multiple-choice exams reasonably well. What MCAT scores do NOT predict are clinical judgment, communication, bedside skill, or physician performance. Put another way: doctors who test well tend to do well on examinations. But test scores do not predict how well they care for patients in clinics, hospitals, surgery, or real-world medicine. Meanwhile, more diverse physician workforces are associated with better preventive care, greater trust, improved access, and lower mortality in underserved communities. There is no objective evidence that excluding minority applicants within a reasonable score range improves patient outcomes. We need minority physicians in this country, and we have the data to prove why. So when people insist that “objective measures” alone should determine admission into medicine — while ignoring the evidence about what actually improves patient care — I increasingly see that argument as less about merit and more about preserving exclusion under the comforting language of statistics. "Equality feels like oppression to those who are privileged"

"Why does an actor's race matter?!" Ok… now imagine it was this:

"Why does an actor's race matter?!" Ok… now imagine it was this:

"Asian students comprise roughly 27% of the student body while representing a much smaller percentage of the overall population." 1. Asian students don't "represent" anyone but themselves. 2. "Asian" is a nonsense classification to begin with. What does a Pakistani have in common with a Filipino? 3. Some Asian subgroups are barely represented in medicine, why, eg, is having the 100th Mexican American more important, by Simpson's own logic, than the 1st Hmong?

The Jews were able to come to America after our Black American ancestors survived their own holocaust that inspired Hitler and went to help save survivors of the European holocaust. Jews got reparations and a lot of support & still do even today to be where they are. Let’s not!

BTW, the libertarian in me would give private institutions leeway to adjust their admissions standards anyway they choose, so long as they are transparent about it. Want to prefer applicants from Group X? Go for it! But the law is to the contrary, and this mentality among elites that they have their ideological priorities, and they, unlike everyone else, should be above the law, is something to behold. As are the disingenuous arguments to the effect of "why are you saying that SAT/LSAT/MCAT etc should be the entire thing? No one is saying that. What they are saying is that the law says that you can't have different admissions standards for different groups. If the SAT is important for Asian students, it should have the same importance for Hispanic students. If it's not, then it's not for either group. It's completely disingenuous to say that the SAT is important for Cambodian American, but suddenly becomes much less important for a Peruvian American.