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Originally Posted by MDPhDJourney
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...I have yet to meet a single student in medical school that lived during the time of slavery (or even one that remembers life prior to the civil rights act of 1964). So giving an advantage to the great great grandchildren of slaves at the expense of white and asian people with on average better scores that typically have families that emigrated here after slavery hardly seems fair. The system creates more racism, since people assume the only reason some people got accepted into medical school is because the color of the skin, which is true (look at mcat scores of accepted students among different races).
The Cartoon about the person complaining because he "didn't get in" does not pertain to this argument as everyone on this forum is already IN medical school (or is a premed who wrongly thinks anyone cares about their opinion).