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I think the big question is: what genius thought that letting African Americans with a 3.1 into a top med school is a good idea? That sounds like setting them up for failure, they will always be the dumb ones on campus, a cruel joke, adding insult to injury.
EVERY med school is exclusionary. Every single one.
He can't say that that he himself was discriminated against - but there is a history of discrimination against Asians when it comes to med school acceptance. That is a fact.
absolutely. Fair and balanced post.
when you look at the history of The Project for Fair Representation. You can clearly see that white complain about it too.
Fisher v. Texas, an affirmative action case that was brought before the Supreme Court in 2012. In that case, Abigail Fisher, a white woman, claimed she was denied admission to the school, while lesser-qualified blacks and Latinos got in because of affirmative action. (The Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court for further review, and it's still making its way through the appeals process.)
If race isn't a factor, why is it more likely that a Hispanic or an African American with a GPA of 3.1 + a MCAT of 31 has statistically a much better shot of getting into medical school than an Asian with the exact same score?
You misread the post.
They said it's not the factor it once was. Meaning it's decreased in significance, not gone entirely away.
Getting into top schools has social, economic, geographic and racial considerations (and a few others).
However, if you are a really good basketball player it trumps ALL of those.
IMO that's the real hillarious part...and a grave indictment of our current "idiocracy" as a nation.
Any country where guys that read at a 3rd grade level are flown in to colleges, given the grand tour, in some cases sex from program "boosters"....given full ride scholarships....lucrative jobs for their parents and bags of cash from boosters. That's hillarious right there.
Affirmative Action is an insult to all Proud Black Americans. It tells all Black Americans, you cannot make it in life, without the whiteman giving you something. You can't build that, forget you didn't build that.
I think the big question is: what genius thought that letting African Americans with a 3.1 into a top med school is a good idea? That sounds like setting them up for failure, they will always be the dumb ones on campus, a cruel joke, adding insult to injury.
I would not want my brain surgeon to score a 70 on the exams.
EVERY med school is exclusionary. Every single one.
He can't say that that he himself was discriminated against - but there is a history of discrimination against Asians when it comes to med school acceptance. That is a fact.
Not talking about other Asians. I'm talking about him. He wasn't discriminated against.
He got in and flunked. Point blank.
And.yes, all medical schools are exclusive, but not equally exclusive.
This is a private school, and they have a right to run their admissions department any way they choose.
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Affirmative Action is an insult to all Proud Black Americans. It tells all Black Americans, you cannot make it in life, without the whiteman giving you something. You can't build that, forget you didn't build that.
We're all what we are because someone gave you a break or sacrificed for you.
Who would I be if Fredrick Douglass or MLK didn't "give" me something? Who would I be if my father hadn't "given" me something?
What's important is that I do something with what I've been given. I don't care what race the person is that gives it to me.
I've been given plenty of opportunities. They may have even been given to me because of my race. Who knows
If so, I don't feel insulted at all. Not one bit. Never have. Never will.
And I'm a "Proud African American."
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I would not want my brain surgeon to score a 70 on the exams.
This happened 17 years ago and the AA programs if they exist today are not like they were in 1998. The movie Soulman was from 1986 in which a white student pretended to be black to get into Harvard. The programs have been changed since then. Now its possible that a low income white student has a good chance of being admitted under a diversity program. Does anyone have a problem with that? Race is not the factor it once was in admissions.
"Not the factor it once was" means that it's importance has diminished, not that it plays no part in the decision.
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