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appearently our superstar tennisball80 here doesn't think so.

Asian girls are cute. Who said I did not like one?

 

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You don't compare it to the national average, you compare it against the average of each respective race. Even still that's a hard measure because there's the boost that some groups get that may inflate the average. Irregardless, there's not enough evidence to suggest that Asians are being marginalized against or that they have to compensate for some unknown mystery factor

fine, we will compare this within race. about 20% of all applicants are asian and about 20% of all matriculates are asian. So no overacceptance. However, average asian applicants has mcats avaerage greater than .2 than whites, and average asian matriculates have about 1 mcats point greater than whites. This seems to suggest that while asian applicants are not much better test takers than the national pool, there is some sort of selection for asian students with higher scores in order to be accepted to medical school (that goes beyond what is normal), which means that having a high test score is that much more important if you are asian. Theres no unknown mystery factor, asian cultures more emphasis on testing and such, and thus, Asian students tend to do better as a such on tests, combine that with the over representation of asians in medicine (usa is 5% asian pop).