affirmative action

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    Supreme Court Ruling, Race based admissions.

    Interested in thoughts on the recent Supreme Court ruling on race in college admissions, and how it will affect medical school admissions.
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    FAQ on med school affirmative action and URM recruitment from an adcom member (emeritus)

    Dear members of the SDN community, I am an internist with over three decades of experience on medical school admissions committees. As I am recently retired from this particular duty I can speak freely here, and give some insight into the workings of affirmative action among those of us who...
    • Adcom MD
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    • adcom admissions affirmative action demographics mcat minorities recruitment fair underrepresented urm
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    • Forum: Pre-Medical (MD)
  3. Vladimir7

    Why is Affirmative Action bad?

    Socioeconomically speaking, I can't see why some people say it should be gotten rid of. Say a student, who works hard, and has the family support to afford a tutor gets a 4.0 GPA. Say another student, who works hard, but can't get a tutor gets a 3.5 GPA. Note: this extrapolates to MCAT...
    • Vladimir7
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    • affirmative action applicant profile underrepresented urm
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    • Forum: Pre-Medical (MD)
  4. PlsHelp

    Rhodes Scholar Question

    What's the lowest GPA for this? I read the list of people who won this year. There were some amazing ones that were PoC, but I noticed that the white females who won were not nearly as impressive..as in, they did photography or something and wrote for huffpost once. Wondering if this is...
    • PlsHelp
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    • affirmative action gpa qualties rhodes scholar tags
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Pre-Medical (MD)