Friend lied on application?

[deleted787552]

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pm me link?

I can’t PM you for some reason. PM me instead!

 

[RNtoMD87]

That type of mindset is common among liars and cheaters. Solipsism is a sin, after all.

Bunch of Sh bag bottom feeder scum.

 

[Goro]

Bunch of Sh bag bottom feeder scum.

Well, it is reddit after all.

 

[RNtoMD87]

I’m talking about cheats. Honestly more of the academic type. I see minorities that use URM to get in that don’t financially need it to be just as bad. Financially challenged? Go for it bud. Love seeing people get ahead from a poor upbringing. Just makes me sick to see some minority from a gated community getting preference over a non minority that is truly struggling just because of skin color. I work with plenty of minorities that were born into money.

 

[dankmeem]

LOL, I have a colleague who is applying this cycle that stated he is an African American male (he is Caucasian), shaved his head and eyebrows. Needless to say, he's got an interview at Harvard, Georgetown, Hopkins, NYU and accepted to Rochester.

There's nothing you can do beyond contacting admissions and reporting them to the school. AAMC doesn't care about these things nor will they investigate. Admissions is a dirty game and it is not played fair. Life sucks.

Good on him. Affirmative action should be abused and mocked

 

[chemdoctor]

No but I think it would give you an equal value boost. This is most of my app in a nutshell and that’s one of the reoccurring topics that always come up in an interivew for me

THat's awesome. i have a bit of that too haha

 

[957367]

I’m talking about cheats. Honestly more of the academic type. I see minorities that use URM to get in that don’t financially need it to be just as bad. Financially challenged? Go for it bud. Love seeing people get ahead from a poor upbringing. Just makes me sick to see some minority from a gated community getting preference over a non minority that is truly struggling just because of skin color. I work with plenty of minorities that were born into money.

That isn't the reasoning behind URM admissions preference, at least not for med schools. The justification frequently given on this forum is that the physician population should reflect the patient population in terms of race. This has little to do with financial or educational hardship, which seems to be a separate consideration altogether.

That begs the question though, how is this justification legal? The whole idea of "the racial proportions of medical students should reflect the patient population" sounds an awful lot like a disguised attempt at a quota, which has been explicitly ruled as unconstitutional.

 

[deleted787552]

That isn't the reasoning behind URM admissions preference, at least not for med schools. The justification frequently given on this forum is that the physician population should reflect the patient population in terms of race. This has little to do with financial or educational hardship, which seems to be a separate consideration altogether.

That begs the question though, how is this justification legal? The whole idea of "the racial proportions of medical students should reflect the patient population" sounds an awful lot like a disguised attempt at a quota, which has been explicitly ruled as unconstitutional.

It is basically a quota but schools have been able to get away with it becuase 1) the last administration’s official policy was to encourage race based admissions and 2) schools said they were using it as ‘one’ of the many criteria to evaluate applicants. The issue is that race is weighted much more heavily than many of the other criteria. Plus the current administration no longer has that policy in place. The Harvard case is sure to change the use of race in admissions decisions once a ruling is made

 

[gyngyn]

Way OT again, closing.