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@KhonWillia3446 @drterrysimpson You have to be a bot.
TL/DR: Underrepresented minorities have attrition rates for medical school that are 2-5x higher than whites/asians. Adjusting for MCAT scores cuts the attrition rate disparity in half. So perhaps MCAT scores aren’t as useless as ppl claim.
Asians targeting only Black systems and networks is simply racism. They are mad that there are Black people that are as smart as them because most of them come from regions where they mistreat darker skin people.
If you need a school to use 'subjective' metrics just to give your group a statistical edge, you aren't winning on merit, you're winning on a handout. Thanks for admitting that a purely objective, score-driven system doesn't favor diversity. That's exactly why I support it.
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"
The Asian families are naturally unhappy that their more qualified Asian children are being passed over in favor of less qualified black people, solely because the black people are black and the Asians are not, thanks to morally degenerate racists like you.
At Yale Medical School, a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics. Today, @CivilRights told Yale that its use of race in admissions is ILLEGAL—and that @TheJusticeDept will step in to enforce Title VI. justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
The same has been felt by Asians when applying to selective colleges for decades. We knew our children had to accomplish way above others to earn the limited spots Ivy+ were willing to give us. The SFFA v Harvard case revealed the extent of the discrimination. Even with SCOTUS ruling that affirmative action is unconstitutional, medical schools like UCLA and Yale continue to evade. Thank goodness @CivilRights @AAGDhillon are pursuing them to comply.
I’m sensing “A Mighty Heart” erasure — in which Angelina Jolie played an Afro-Cuban woman.
