Yeah that is messed up but remember that not all URM's and non-URM's are cut from the same cloth. In other words there are URM's (myself) with 4.0's, great MCAT's, EC's, excellent LOR's, tons of research experience and there are also non-URM's that do gain acceptance to medical school with low gpa, subpar MCAT, etc. So of course there are people that always will fall through the cracks but that goes on both sides. Also there are much much less URM's applying than non-URM's for the entering year of 2001 only 4091 total URM's applied and 1881 were accepted. So yes there is almost a 50% acceptance rate but the amount applying is very very small compared to other minorities (that are non-URM) and Caucasian's applying. These numbers can be found at AAMC web page under FACTS here is the <a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/start.htm" target="_blank">link</a>