Are you that illiterate? My whole point was that LLU DOES accept a very disproportionate amount of SDAs. Maybe you should address the other people that replied to my post... If you think 25% is a pretty good number (considering SDAs are a minority) then I suggest you stay out of the politically correct states when you graduate, because your ideas about fairness will bury you. What misleads many people is the belief that being religous will benefit you in getting in to LLU. This is completely wrong and all the atheists that got in can testify here; being SDA is the biggest factor to your getting in...And yes, they have every right to do this and its what makes the school unique (in a good way). In fact, LLU ranks nowhere near the top in the list of schools that practice unfair admissions, and Im not even talking about UCLA ortho or Howard/Meharry.
Illiterate - No. Think about it, would I actually be able to sit at this computer typing out a response to your post?
I understand what you said. My response was to think that you were actually naive enough to actually need those stats to realize this. To most, this is a straight forward fact.
that said, SDAs being a minority when you take religion into consideration has nothing to do with this. It has to do with Loma Linda being a SDA school. If an SDA finded institution wants 75% +/- of their class to be SDA, that is their choice. Any other religion (Jewish, Catholic, etc.) could do the same should they choose and I would support their decision to do the same since they fund the school.
Yes, being an SDA gives you a 40+% chance of getting in - those 75 slots they made available. The other 24 slots can kind of be considered(as someone else mentioned) like an out of state appliicant to a state funded institution. Not many state funded schools offer 24 slots to out of state applicants (in this case non-SDA applicants). So, for a private, religious schools to offer 24 slots that is better than what you will get applying out of state to state funded schools in comparison. You don't usually see the absurd 1.2% acceptance rates for out of staters at most state funded schools because unless you have great stats you will not get in there usually. So, most people are turned away from applying to out of state schools if they are very competative. If as many out of state applicants applied to (let's say and of the 3 Texas schools), I can guarantee you that the 24 slots would not be handed out. So, that is why I feel 24 non-SDA slots are actually pretty good. It is not my fault that so many people choose to apply for those slots, but many people feel that private schools are their only chance of getting in so they still apply because they feel it is their only hope.
As far as all the athiests - only 2 'other' religions were accepted for that cycle. "All the Athiests that got in", well, 2 really isn't that many. But of those 2, they probably got in because they deserved it. LLU doesn't discriminate based on religion. They are biased. they accept their own, but that doesn't mean you don't have a chance of getting in even if you don't believe there is a God.
Now, you also show naiveness thinking that a single comment that you disagree with here shows the way that I think all the time and that could somehow 'bury me' and my practice. My opinions are very broad - conservative and liberal. I don't just stand on one side of the fence. I know I will succeed wherever I set up a practice after I finish my career in the military no matter how what my opinions are.