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Personally, I don't give a **** if it takes them 10 years to finish medical school as long as they finish and do so according to the standards that everybody else was required to finish.
When I said underqualified, I meant who said that URMs whom adcoms believed WOULD NOT or COULD NOT handle medical school, are accepted? There is underqualified (which means u don't belong in med school) and there is not as highly qualified. If u look at the page Ryo-Ohki posted, the gpa's of the black/latino students is something like 3.59 avg. and the Asian/Whites is 3.8 something. Similarly, the MCAT scores were a little lower as well. This doesn't qualify them as UNDERQUALIFIED.
Still, your point makes sense that the people who drop out are most likely the ones with lower stats. Actually, there is not a high percentage of ANYBODY who drops out of medical school. The medical schools work with you to do whatever it takes for you to finish your M.D. degree. So, this is hardly a reason to say that URM's need not be chosen based on the need for representation within their communities.
Frankly people just have a hard time accepting the fact that medical schools accept students along various categories and try to fill in different quotas based on gender, location, skills, interests, etc...
I don't see anybody complaining that a State school takes more state applicants than Out of state applicants, or that they want an equal number or women as they do men. Why is it when it comes to giving a URM a chance at becoming a doctor; something their community desparately needs --that people get their panties all in a scrunch?
Look...this is the way you have to look at it. It has nothing to do with you. It's about fulfilling a void in the medical community, not about individual fairness/unfairness. There is a certain number of seats different categories of people are considered for: under-represented minorities HAPPENS to be one of them. There's nothing you can do about it, because once again...its not about you! :wink:
When I said underqualified, I meant who said that URMs whom adcoms believed WOULD NOT or COULD NOT handle medical school, are accepted? There is underqualified (which means u don't belong in med school) and there is not as highly qualified. If u look at the page Ryo-Ohki posted, the gpa's of the black/latino students is something like 3.59 avg. and the Asian/Whites is 3.8 something. Similarly, the MCAT scores were a little lower as well. This doesn't qualify them as UNDERQUALIFIED.
Still, your point makes sense that the people who drop out are most likely the ones with lower stats. Actually, there is not a high percentage of ANYBODY who drops out of medical school. The medical schools work with you to do whatever it takes for you to finish your M.D. degree. So, this is hardly a reason to say that URM's need not be chosen based on the need for representation within their communities.
Frankly people just have a hard time accepting the fact that medical schools accept students along various categories and try to fill in different quotas based on gender, location, skills, interests, etc...
I don't see anybody complaining that a State school takes more state applicants than Out of state applicants, or that they want an equal number or women as they do men. Why is it when it comes to giving a URM a chance at becoming a doctor; something their community desparately needs --that people get their panties all in a scrunch?
Look...this is the way you have to look at it. It has nothing to do with you. It's about fulfilling a void in the medical community, not about individual fairness/unfairness. There is a certain number of seats different categories of people are considered for: under-represented minorities HAPPENS to be one of them. There's nothing you can do about it, because once again...its not about you! :wink: