Our nephew in CA was denied admission to med school over minorities and other foreign students who were awarded free tuition....he is still looking for a good medical school....
That one BF at least was totally unable to diagnose pneumonia from an xray that was fairly obvious.
My Step-Daughter has experienced this bias, but I believe I see a solution.
Applications don’t say “Black”, they say “African-American”.
My Step-Daughter has vacationed in Africa, with her Mother and Sister.
I conclude this makes her MORE “African-American” than 95% of Blacks in this country!
Will have her check the box and include a photo-copy of her passport stamp, for her next application.
This tells me one thing. Whatever I do, I need to seek out an Asian doctor. Just think how smart that SOB had to be just to get into med school against those odds.
I have no doubt that there is discrimination against white males in the med school admission process.
My son is waiting to learn whether or not he will be offered admission to med school. GPA 3.8 from Pepperdine University and MCAT score of 32.
He applied to 18 schools at a cost of thousands of dollars for the initial application and secondaries at all eighteen schools.
Out of the eighteen, he has been on 9 interviews.
So far, he has been wait-listed or given alternate status at 4 schools. We have not heard from the other 5 as yet.
In our home state, he applied and got an interview at University Nevada Reno. It is a small program, but we thought that since he is a native Nevadan, comes from a school district that is poor, at best, and a high school that has been taken over by the federal government for failing to make adequate progress three years in a row, he would have a better than good chance of acceptance because of his grades and MCAT score.
Well, one of the women that was interviewed on the same day as he was has already received her acceptance. Not a Nevadan, nor with numbers as good as his, but she has gotten her golden ticket.
A little humorous anecdote....When he was interviewed at UCLA, there was only one other white, a woman. The rest of the interviewees were black or Asian. One young man from India was friendly with my son and they spent the day together. Of course they discussed the chances of being accepted. The young man told my son that American medical schools are so saturated with kids from India and Pakistan that it was almost impossible for someone from there to get in nowadays. LOL
If one is a white American male, without a “hook”, something that one has overcome, or some tragic event in one’s life, there is almost no chance of getting accepted.
I joked one time that he should have written that he is gay as one of the answers in the secondary apps. It’s not like you would have to prove it or anything I told him. But, hey it just might have worked.
This goes back at least to 75 and the Bakke case. The black student who was admitted in his place eventually had his license removed for gross incompetence and inability to perform even basic medical procedures; a good example of what you get from a lot of affirmative action.
This is not just about race. Gender is also a part of this scam. We still hear all of the pleading about how we have to make it more equal for women when women are now a majority in terms of high school graduation, college attendance and graduation as well as admission to professional schools.
My daughter, a recent nursing school graduate, and many of her classmates complained to their school when the school allowed the passing grade for gays and lesbians to be ten points lower than the minimum grades the rest of the students needed for graduation. The administration said there was nothing they could do about it. The Federal purse string people were the cause.