Your girlfriend is quite the admirable person, because she works hard. But I think its a common misconception that everyone plays the black or hispanic card. We apply like everyone else, and it is the admissions committee/medical school who decides 1) whether we are a minority or not 2) whether they want to give diversity scholarships. The applicant has no say in the process. From your posting history it appears like you think that minority applicants are waiting with tin cups outside the doors of adcomm officess for handouts. I would hope that you have a better view of your future classmates than that. Because people don't fit into little neat sterotypes.
1.) Thanks, I know my gf is awesome. I love her personality so much.
2.) I dont think of what your saying about ME personally stereotyping minories in any negative way is accurate, I am a minority myself (not a race that is considered minority by ADCOMS) and disadvantaged. It's that we all know that special admissions standards are given to those described as minorties at med schools. I also unfortunately had experiences and we all know it happens that at times minorities use the race card a bit much that may lead to racism. I had a few guys in my class back in undergrad that everytime they got a grade in one of our essay classes (that was somewhat subjective grading), if they didnt get the grade they want they would call the professor racist. I also had a friend who graduated undergrad with me, awesome girl, was a PA for a while, then I saw her recently she told me she was applying to med school. She has a 3.2, and a 7, 7, 8 on her MCAT. I told her good luck, it is going to be a challenge to get in with those scores, as friends she joked (somewhat not really joking) saying I am a black female, I will get in, what you know she was right, 2 weeks ago she got into med school. Now consider the same application by a non minority, the person wouldnt get admitted, or even consider special programs such as the University of Michigan law School that gives you 20 or so points on their rating scale automatically for being black/hispanic which caused an uproar that went to the supreme court. U of M won and can now overtly say we are using minority status as a means of admissions.
Please dont BS me, yourself or others and pretend that someone's minority status didnt have a huge role in your or others application and give them a huge advantage. Personally as I said before, the days of repressed races or using the race card not to get ahead are gone, we now have a black president (doesnt mean racism is all but eliminated in america, it just indicated regardless of your race if you work hard and are intellient enough you can be anything you want regardless of your race EVEN PRESIDENT).
At times there special advantages given to minorities causes resentment from other students who couldnt get in with higher stats just because they werent minorities, it also builds suspicion on current med school students, residents, etc... who all think that this minority got in just because of his/her color and are probably not that bright. I am not sure if anyone heard of a girl, I think she posted on the pre-med/med forum back in the days saying during one of her residency interviews she overheard one of the Attending telling another, there goes another black girl who is trying to use her URM status to try to take a spot of a "qualified" student. This biased/stereotype views carry on from medical students all the way to attendings as it did with this guy at times.
I think those who are true to themselves would agree with me. I think URM shouldnt be based on color/race, but if one is disadvantaged whether they are first generation, financially disadvantaged, hardships in life, etc... REGARDLESS of what color or race you are. I am being real, pointing these things out because when one is accepted based on their race or if it played a huge role as we know it does, this causes a huge stereotype by others doubting the real intelligence or qualification of that entire race. A true intelligent fully secure applicant such as my gf and roomate (black) agree all the way, others who are may be racists themselves (all races can be racist) or or ignorant would say, oo your saying that because your racist, and you stereotype bla bla... it's the insecure ones with this type of attitude that screws it up for the entire race and causes such stereotypes not by me, but by others who may end up colleagues be it in medical school or any other professional school/profession.
I was reading this post in the pre-dent forum
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=580186
Poster one says "
I hope since we are URM it'll give a little leanway on admissions
since we are far and few between!
Representing Tejas.!
One person ONLY one minority responded right after he wrote it and impressed me so much with her response saying:
Poster 2:
^^I hope not, because then everyone will just look at us and be like 'oh you only got in b/c you're URM'. Um no, I got in because I'm qualified thanks. (also it's "leeway" not "leanway")
Poster one represents the type of person that wants his/her status to get into a school, poster two who replied to him refers to those who have a personality like my gf and roomate who understand how this type of behavior can lead to the stereotypes/racism by others I explained in my post.
