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Well to a certain extent does it really matter? If they get admitted to medical school with lower than average stats, they still have to pass the same board exams as everyone else and do as well in the same classes as everyone else. If they don't they can't practice medicine anyways so lives technically won't be at stake. Maybe it is slightly easier to get in but after that point its a level playing field.You missed the point of my post. No one deserves lax admissions into medical school. Even black people. By making admissions easy for URMS You are essentially saying "you barely passed college, and did terrible on the MCAT but it's okay because you're black." If you don't see anything wrong with this, you should. By all means admit more URMs, but we should be holding everyone to the same standards regardless of race. There are human lives at stake here we need to be kind of choosy.
To begin to fix this, work needs to be done on the societal level. This is something medical admissions have very little control over. And rightly so because they have a bad way of fixing it. But I'm not getting into a sociological argument with you so I'll leave it there.
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