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Hey I was wondering what schools like minority applicants?
Med school admissions seem pretty sweet.Of the "higher ranked" schools, U Pittsburgh and Northwestern are starting to put increased emphasis on recruiting URM talent as they try to "move up" in the rankings, according to faculty and current students.
Excuse me, but certain schools actually don't welcome minorities as much as others so this is a perfectly legitimate question. I understand that URM are welcomed to a certain extent in every school, but that was not my question. In the future, your condescending tone is unnecessary and unwelcomed in any thread. This is supposed to be a supportive environment, best of luck to you in your medical school endeavors.This is asinine question. Also, don't cross post.
Which schools are these?Excuse me, but certain schools actually don't welcome minorities as much as others so this is a perfectly legitimate question. I understand that URM are welcomed to a certain extent in every school, but that was not my question. In the future, your condescending tone is unnecessary and unwelcomed in any thread. This is supposed to be a supportive environment, best of luck to you in your medical school endeavors.
Excuse me, but certain schools actually don't welcome minorities as much as others so this is a perfectly legitimate question. I understand that URM are welcomed to a certain extent in every school, but that was not my question. In the future, your condescending tone is unnecessary and unwelcomed in any thread. This is supposed to be a supportive environment, best of luck to you in your medical school endeavors.
Name some that "aren't as welcoming"...admissions across the country give urm preferential treatmentExcuse me, but certain schools actually don't welcome minorities as much as others so this is a perfectly legitimate question. I understand that URM are welcomed to a certain extent in every school, but that was not my question. In the future, your condescending tone is unnecessary and unwelcomed in any thread. This is supposed to be a supportive environment, best of luck to you in your medical school endeavors.
If you want to talk about something that is unwelcome, it's another bloody URM thread. The topic has been discussed ad nauseam on this forum. Before you level an accusation of "you're just avoiding annoying topics" at me, let me say that there have been no new developments as far as this subject is concerned for as far back as I can remember. If new information becomes available which generates legitimate and original concerns, then we can all have a talk and contribute. Instead, people get a hair brained idea one morning and open a new thread, clearly having not spent enough time looking for resources that already exist to both find their answer for themselves and learn how obnoxiously done this topic is. One who actually took the time to look would know that such threads only serve to deteriorate the "supportive environment" you mention. Aside from that, the attitude of "ask and it will be given unto you" is useless for really learning anything about a topic such as this. People need to take the time to pour through what's already here to not only find the answer to their question but to learn a lot more along the way. This negates the need to further beat this poor topic to death and serves to inform people more broadly about the subject. This is just lazy and unproductive and, yes, asinine.Excuse me, but certain schools actually don't welcome minorities as much as others so this is a perfectly legitimate question. I understand that URM are welcomed to a certain extent in every school, but that was not my question. In the future, your condescending tone is unnecessary and unwelcomed in any thread. This is supposed to be a supportive environment, best of luck to you in your medical school endeavors.
If you want to talk about something that is unwelcome, it's another bloody URM thread. The topic has been discussed ad nauseam on this forum. Before you level an accusation of "you're just avoiding annoying topics" at me, let me say that there have been no new developments as far as this subject is concerned for as far back as I can remember. If new information becomes available which generates legitimate and original concerns, then we can all have a talk and contribute. Instead, people get a hair brained idea one morning and open a new thread, clearly having not spent enough time looking for resources that already exist to both find their answer for themselves and learn how obnoxiously done this topic is. One who actually took the time to look would know that such threads only serve to deteriorate the "supportive environment" you mention. Aside from that, the attitude of "ask and it will be given unto you" is useless for really learning anything about a topic such as this. People need to take the time to pour through what's already here to not only find the answer to their question but to learn a lot more along the way. This negates the need to further beat this poor topic to death and serves to inform people more broadly about the subject. This is just lazy and unproductive and, yes, asinine.
Don't apply to UNM (in a nm resident) if you're OOS then you HAVE to to apply there EDP and I doubt many people would want to do that.Think of the population of the patients. Often, that tends to be more bi-coastal than middle America, and more inner cities than rural but there can also be ranges too. Some state schools also have a very heavy population of certain populations; NM is one. I seem to recall, they really want their students to speak Spanish. Think of this process of selecting schools as a sociology lesson combined with statistics. Data from the MSAR really helps for the statistics aspect, but so does an understanding of the schools's mission.
This. Just because you're a URM doesn't mean med schools give you a free pass on lower marks.If you have numbers to match, they all do.
My odds of acceptance (given my stats) as an ORM were 30% lower than they would have been if I were URM, that's a lot of leewayThis. Just because you're a URM doesn't mean med schools give you a free pass on lower marks.
If you are a competitive applicant, it will give you a leg up. Otherwise, don't expect you'll get much leeway just for ticking a box..
Yes, there's that kind of bias too.Don't apply to UNM (in a nm resident) if you're OOS then you HAVE to to apply there EDP and I doubt many people would want to do that.
yes I so wanted to to go to UNM but am from NEYes, there's that kind of bias too.
My odds of acceptance (given my stats) as an ORM were 30% lower than they would have been if I were URM, that's a lot of leeway
My odds of acceptance (given my stats) as an ORM were 30% lower than they would have been if I were URM, that's a lot of leeway
That only holds true if he's from a good socioeconomic background. He could be a poor Asian, then he's getting screwed because of that race-money proxy logic.
That only holds true if he's from a good socioeconomic background. He could be a poor Asian, then he's getting screwed because of that race-money proxy logic.
My odds of acceptance (given my stats) as an ORM were 30% lower than they would have been if I were URM, that's a lot of leeway
lower SES doesn't mean lower stats
are you suggesting there is something about a race other than their tendency to be lower SES that would impair their ability to get good stats?
Is the MCAT racist?
You rolled your eyes when I said that race is used as a proxy for SES in admissions in undergrad/grad schools in America
What is it that makes a race score lower other than SES? Racism only affects certain minorities?
You guys are confusing racism and racial prejudice. A minority group cannot be racist if they don't have power. This is a more intricate issue than you guys are making it out to be. Anyhow, this thread is going down the ****ter.
All schools like diversity and thus like URMs.
I just think its nonsense to take two minority groups, say Asian and African-American, and then treat them differently in admissions, especially if they have similar SES backgrounds.
I just think its nonsense to take two minority groups, say Asian and African-American, and then treat them differently in admissions, especially if they have similar SES backgrounds.
Two applicants identical in every way, including overcoming SES disadvantages and never having the privileges of being white and/or men, are still treated differently based on race. That's nonsense.