
qili00
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I guess 5% of lawyers being Black is too much for them.

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 have a 15-year-old son. He is a freshman at one of the many STEM schools in California. He tests well, has strong grades, and someday he will be one of thousands of applicants who look very similar on paper. He wants to go to @UChicago like his dad, which would make me proud. But how will admissions officers differentiate him from the thousands of other kids with excellent scores, AP classes, polished resumes, and test prep? Yes, he has unique interests. He works with coral reefs, scuba dives, loves theater, and builds community naturally wherever he goes. But what truly differentiates him is not a number. It is his empathy. His kindness. His curiosity. His ability to bring people together. His instinct to lead by inclusion rather than domination. We are fortunate. We can afford tutors, prep courses, enrichment programs, whatever he may need. But an exam score will never fully capture who he is as a human being. And that is precisely why reducing admissions — whether college or medical school — to standardized testing alone fundamentally misses the point. At some stage, somebody has to actually see the person.



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.


The Yale medical school discourse is interesting because MCAT & GPA are only part of a med school application. Raw numbers don’t show who will be a better physician. We see this in sports all the time, a QB having more passing yards doesn’t mean they’re the better quarterback.



@fuqekgs I prefer high grades and test scores and amazingly enough, one can find diversity even among the highest achievers.






What a strange little performance this is. A man who likely benefited his entire life from invisible networks of class, education, geography, culture, and social familiarity suddenly discovers an almost priestly devotion to “pure objectivity” the instant diversity enters the conversation. You people speak of the MCAT the way medieval clergy spoke of holy relics — as though a standardized exam has descended from Sinai untouched by wealth, coaching, privilege, educational inequality, or institutional advantage. And the truly comic part is watching grown adults scream “racism” because medical schools dare consider that physicians might need qualities beyond competitive bubble-sheet filling. Medicine is practiced on terrified human beings, not on Scantrons. But outrage merchants cannot survive nuance. Their business model requires panic, caricature, and the perpetual fantasy that society was once a flawless meritocracy until minorities arrived to spoil the arithmetic.


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"


@fuqekgs @cancel_commies @ntgcv @DocLibertarian Yeah well it's a good indicator. I don't want a doctor with empathy and I don't care how well they communicate. Test scores are the best indicator of a good doctor.





Moscow and Moscow region will remain under Ukrainian strikes until Putin signs a capitulation. Today the largest Ukrainian attack on Moscow and the Moscow region since the beginning of the war took place. Russian military infrastructure and oil facilities that generate money for Russia’s war machine were under attack. Social media is now full of videos from residents of the Moscow region complaining that they “never thought the war would reach them.” According to opinion polls, 75% of Moscow residents support the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine. They also support continuing the war rather than starting negotiations. These figures are roughly twice as high as the Russian national average. Residents of Moscow participate the least in the war, suffer the fewest casualties, and the Russian authorities do everything possible to ensure that life in Moscow and Saint Petersburg remains almost unchanged from pre-war times. As long as it did not directly affect them, Muscovites either supported the war or pretended it had nothing to do with them. Moscow is the center of the empire. Russia has always been deeply polarized: Moscow treats many of its own territories and peoples as colonies. Strikes on other Russian regions barely concerned the Russian authorities. For Russia and its regime, Moscow is the political, financial, ideological, and symbolic center that embodies the full concentration of power. Moscow is the main imperial symbol dominating vast regions - Putin’s personal fortress, from which the neo-imperial state is controlled and the war is directed. That is why Putin was so afraid of Ukrainian drones during the parade. Ukraine has now developed - and continues to develop - our long-range strike capabilities against Russia. And we will act symmetrically. Moscow’s air defense systems can no longer fully protect Russian military and oil facilities. Russia’s war against Ukraine is now also being fought on Russian territory. Leave Ukrainian territory, pay reparations, and it will all end!


Asian people are being systematically discriminated against in favor of black people. Why does Yale Medical School think people prefer black doctors instead of qualified doctors?






