Question for URMs, how could the process improve?

[Osminog]

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the end of the day, an MCAT score doesn’t make you a doctor. I’ve came across physicians both black and white who may have had some high stats, but suck at working with people!! What makes you a Physician has do with having passion to do medicine and work with the underdogs!! There needs to be more doctors willing to take a pay cut and deliver services to Medicaid patients.. so whether one has a 495 Mcat or 515, who cares! Is that person williing to make the sacrifices and commitment to do a service for others? So perhaps, if lowering the Mcat score expectation for someone put out more good physicians in the world and less cold, calculating physicians, the committee must do that in order to fulfill the oath of medicine, especially osteopathic medicine.

If you get a score of 495 (~35th percentile) on the MCAT, then that likely means you lack the knowledge and/or the cognitive abilities required to become an effective medical student. Adequate knowledge and strong cognitive abilities are necessary -- albeit not sufficient -- characteristics for entering the medical profession. Friendliness and compassion cannot compensate for major deficiencies in these traits.

I know some AA students, who always come to class in designer clothes, but were still able to apply to med school as URM and got into top schools with suboptimal stats and ECs. That sounds wrong to me. No offense.

Yeah, anti-white and anti-Asian racial discrimination sounds wrong to me, too.

 

[FroYoOreo]

There's a difference between Under-Represented and Disadvantaged.

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That's my point. I think race should be out of the picture, instead SES and disadvantaged status should be more heavily relied upon for admission purposes.

 

[Lucca]

Closing this thread because it ran its course a long time ago.