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[Joe Brownski]

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Does anyone know which schools are more inclined to accept students that are minorties?

 

[lmaozedong1]

Does anyone know which schools are more inclined to accept students that are minorties?

Louisville, Midwestern, Indiana...apply to all of those.

 

[FutureDent020]

Louisville, Midwestern, Indiana...apply to all of those.

Haha, what?? I'm guessing sarcasm?

 

[Joe Brownski]

what do those schools have little to no minority students?

 

[sweetdaises2000]

Did you mean other than the HBCU's? Howard and Meharry...And Pitt also has this minority friendly clause on its site:
The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine is dedicated to the recruitment and education of academically talented minority students into the dental school program. Applicants who are members of underserved populations are welcome to apply for admission.
Minority students participate in the Student National Dental Association and the Hispanic Dental Association.
http://www.dental.pitt.edu/students/first_professional.php#minority

 

[lmaozedong1]

No seriously apply to Midwestern, Indiana, and Louisville...TONS of minorities. 😎

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[Joe Brownski]

any schools on the east coast?

 

[Destiny11]

No seriously apply to Midwestern, Indiana, and Louisville...TONS of minorities. 😎

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These schools are like 80-90% Non-minority.

To the OP, which minority are you? If you are a URM (African-American, Hispanic, or American Indian)...you can apply to any school and have a good chance. If not, good luck!

 

[AmpedUp]

Honestly, you'd have a good shot at any school as a minority status applicant. A lot of them have a preference for diversity and you'd (somewhat) have more priority than non-minority applicants. However, schools that do have a specific preference for minority applicants are Meharry and Howard.

 

[allover]

if you're asian or middle eastern you get no special loly pop sorry.

 

[DrReo]

Does anyone know which schools are more inclined to accept students that are minorties?

Ahhh, utilizing academic discrimination to the finest.

 

[allover]

Ahhh, utilizing academic discrimination to the finest.

maybe. but nothing compares to lying about why we went to war!

 

[Destiny11]

Did you mean other than the HBCU's? Howard and Meharry...And Pitt also has this minority friendly clause on its site:
The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine is dedicated to the recruitment and education of academically talented minority students into the dental school program. Applicants who are members of underserved populations are welcome to apply for admission.
Minority students participate in the Student National Dental Association and the Hispanic Dental Association.
http://www.dental.pitt.edu/students/first_professional.php#minority

1. If you are poor and comes from an underserved area, you will most likely move to a much more wealthy area once you become a dentist.
2. More efforts need to be made to recruit students who actually want to serve in underserved areas, instead of assuming URMs or people from underserved areas will do so.

 

[lmaozedong1]

maybe. but nothing compares to lying about why we went to war!

god I hate people like you.

 

[lnngu]

1. If you are poor and comes from an underserved area, you will most likely move to a much more wealthy area once you become a dentist.
2. More efforts need to be made to recruit students who actually want to serve in underserved areas, instead of assuming URMs or people from underserved areas will do so.

Well well... Making those kinds of broad statements without data to back them up is curious. I guess that if it's good enough for cable TV, it's good enough for you?

My opinion (for what it's worth):
URM programs exist because underserved communities exist. There's excellent data available (alanan84 posted some on another thread) that show that URM indeed are more likely to serve there. If URMs bother you this much, then I'd suggest serving in an underserved area once you're done with school. If there's no need for them, the programs will disappear.

This said, I have a hard time imagining anyone who wastes their time complaining about URMs on a preprofessional forum, like they're thieves who stole a slice of their favorite pie, caring enough to take a pay cut and going to work in for said underserved communities. Again, just my opinion...

/end soapbox

lnngu- NOT URM/NOT underpriviledged.

PS: out of curiosity, what's with all the references to Obama in these URM threads? You DO know that the URM programs predate him, don't you?

 

[Destiny11]

Well well... Making those kinds of broad statements without data to back them up is curious. I guess that if it's good enough for cable TV, it's good enough for you?

My opinion (for what it's worth):
URM programs exist because underserved communities exist. There's excellent data available (alanan84 posted some on another thread) that show that URM indeed are more likely to serve there. If URMs bother you this much, then I'd suggest serving in an underserved area once you're done with school. If there's no need for them, the programs will disappear.

This said, I have a hard time imagining anyone who wastes their time complaining about URMs on a preprofessional forum, like they're thieves who stole a slice of their favorite pie, caring enough to take a pay cut and going to work in for said underserved communities. Again, just my opinion...

/end soapbox

lnngu- NOT URM/NOT underpriviledged.

PS: out of curiosity, what's with all the references to Obama in these URM threads? You DO know that the URM programs predate him, don't you?

Ok. I was not clear enough, but I think there is a lot of assumptions made either way.

Edit:
2. More efforts need to be made to recruit students who actually want to serve in underserved areas.

 

[biorenaissance]

Well well... Making those kinds of broad statements without data to back them up is curious. I guess that if it's good enough for cable TV, it's good enough for you?

My opinion (for what it's worth):
URM programs exist because underserved communities exist. There's excellent data available (alanan84 posted some on another thread) that show that URM indeed are more likely to serve there. If URMs bother you this much, then I'd suggest serving in an underserved area once you're done with school. If there's no need for them, the programs will disappear.

This said, I have a hard time imagining anyone who wastes their time complaining about URMs on a preprofessional forum, like they're thieves who stole a slice of their favorite pie, caring enough to take a pay cut and going to work in for said underserved communities. Again, just my opinion...

/end soapbox

lnngu- NOT URM/NOT underpriviledged.

PS: out of curiosity, what's with all the references to Obama in these URM threads? You DO know that the URM programs predate him, don't you?

ECU is suppose to focus on underserved communities in North Carolina but NC's underserved communities are filled with Velveeta lovin white cracker filled double wides does this mean they will have a preference for Velveeta lovers?

 

[lnngu]

Ok. I was not clear enough, but I think there is a lot of assumptions made either way.

Edit:
2. More efforts need to be made to recruit students who actually want to serve in underserved areas.

Glad we agree.

I apologize for singling you out when I was really responding to the tone this thread had taken.

 

[lnngu]

ECU is suppose to focus on underserved communities in North Carolina but NC's underserved communities are filled with Velveeta lovin white cracker filled double wides does this mean they will have a preference for Velveeta lovers?

To answer your question, isn't ECU restricted to North Carolina residents only?