NRAI2001 said:
LOL, are u threatening me hahahahha.
Also if u have the time to be on this forum, u have the time to study for school and the mcats.
I definitely agree with this. URMs are let into my ugrad school with SAT scores and GPAs FAR FAR lower than those of non-URMs. Looking at the stats of accepted applicants on the Berkeley website and seeing URMs accepted with dismal SATs (in the 900-1000 range...I thought you had to TRY HARD to score this low) and low GPAs makes me cringe. But I'm not cringing at the fact that URMs are being admitted...I'm cringing at the fact that these URMs were admitted at the expense of LEGIONS of more qualified white and Asian students across the state and country.
The valedictorian of the high school I attended got rejected by Berkeley this year
🙄 and had to "settle" for Cornell University (he was also admitted to UPenn and Brown)...the painful part about this was that Berkeley was his first choice school ever since he could remember. His SAT I score was 1570 and his GPA was absolutely phenomenal (obviously...he was the valedictorian afterall). I cringe when I think of how disappointed he must have been when he went to the mailbox and saw the small envelope addressed to him from Sproul Hall. I cringe when I think of how he must have felt when he told his parents and friends that he was rejected (both of his parents are Berkeley alums...they...like everyone else in his life...were almost sure that he would be accepted). I cringe at the fact that his spot went to a URM student that had a GPA that was <3.0 and an unspeakably low SAT score.
I've heard people on this website spew drivel like, "No one will keep YOU out of med school...only YOU can keep yourself out of med school." This is absolute garbage...there are a FINITE number of spots in US allopathic schools...any spot that goes to applicant X is granted to applicant X at the EXPENSE of applicants A, B, C, D, E, etc (who could have been equally qualified). We are COMPETING for seats here...no one is GIVEN anything in this process...because applicant A is given a seat in a US allopathic school...that leaves ONE LESS seat available for applicants B, C, D, E, etc.
So I'm really not surprised that a URM was admitted with a 22 MCAT. It just confirms that painfully obvious in my mind...med school admissions (like life in general)..is NOT FAIR...and will never be fair. People with MCAT scores several standard deviations above Chalklette's MCAT score (with comparable GPAs) will receive roundhouse rejections from every US allopathic school they apply to this year. They'll look back at all the work they had to do, everything they've had to overcome in life, etc..and just feel demoralized, jaded, hurt, etc. Meanwhile, Chalklette can come back to this website and brag about her admission to Howard. This is the world we live in...a sad reality indeed...
P.S.: Before you begin to flame me...please keep in mind
1) I too am a minority...but unlike URMs...my minority isn't given any preferential treatment for jobs, college admissions, etc.
2) This isn't an AA thread so don't turn it into one...I was just using my rant about URMs with lower stats being admitted to underscore the MAIN point of this post which is that med school admission is NOT even remotely fair and we need to learn to deal with that. People with 3.8s and 22s will be admitted over tons of people applying with higher MCATs.
