•••quote:•••Originally posted by med student:
• •••quote:••• Meharry is historically African-American. But, I saw several non-black med students on interview day. It's very diverse. ••••I would not exactly call it a very diverse school because they have around 80% blacks and the remainer made up of white and asian students. So the distribution of races is different than many other schools but the diversity of many different races was not there at least as I compare it to my undergrad. Also it is important to not look at the interview pool as proof of the diversity of the school. You have to realize that while the school accepts around 80% of it's class as black students I would be extremely suprised if blacks represented more than 30% of their applicant pool as a whole. The day I interviewed there for 4 of us and we where all white. I to suspect that this happens more often than not because many people us it as a safety school. Also if anyone is interested this same topic was discussed a few months ago so do a search and you can find some more info. Hey ATLien be nice because not everyone is as experienced or knows as much as you do. I think it is a valid question because it is important to realize how many non-blacks the school accepts and also what kind of screening techniques the school uses. Here is a similar example I can give you, School X accepts 10% of it's class from out of state. Before you apply it is very important to find out if that 10% comes from all over the country or if it represents people with close ties to the state. This board is a perfect place to answer a question like this.•••••As experienced or knows as much as I do? j/k?
No offense, but the problem that I have is that virtually every mention of the historically black medical schools prompts someone to interrupt the discussion with AA, reverse-racism, standards, etc.
Yes, SDN is a great place to discuss these issues. If this is what someone wants to discuss, then why won't they simply start a NEW post with their point in the subject line. They will get virtually no replies, i bet.
Instead people often tend to water down someone's original question by completely changing the subject. The person who submitted the previous post has >150 posts here on SDN. It is difficult to believe that this is his or her first time hearing of Meharry, the principles on which it was founded, and the traditions they maintain up to this day.
Lets not forget that Howard and Meharry were putting out thousands of black doctors DECADES before most other med schools.
...and what in the world does the rate of loan defaults have to do with this post?????
MJ
