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Should you experience a major debilitating illness do you want the most intelligent, most informed, most qualified person in charge of your health plan or someone who rose to their position based on filling a racial quota?
I'm pretty sure admissions averages are far past showing which applicants are fit for medicine. Where do these qualifications come from? Who is to say that a high MCAT score shows more intelligence, rather than a person who could afford tutoring and dedicated study time? Should someone be punished for having to work instead of volunteer? Or spending time taking care of family instead of doing research?
Looks like even with a 50%tile, you have a good shot of making it through just fine. In that perspective, focusing so much perceived intelligence through scores and grades instead of perseverance in the face of adversity does a disservice to the many people who would still be qualified to become great physicians.Based on recent data, if you scored in the average range, your chances of advancing from your first year of medical school to your second year were extremely high—98 percent of students scoring between 510–513 did so. The numbers only dipped slightly, however, for those who scored 10 points lower, with students who entered medical school with MCAT scores between 498–501 progressing to year two at a 94 percent rate.
Even later on in the process, we see clerkship grading subjected to potential racial bias. How do we know that super qualified physician you speak of isn't just someone who rode in through the old boy's club?