Wow I did not intended my post to become a debate or some sort.
Oh, of course. I mean whenever someone says something blatantly racist I guess they expect us to take it at face value.
I was merely saying "I" feel that drctother's comment is ignorant. Yeah your explaination of caucasian's higher population is highly plausible, and probably right, but you can't give me the number and proof either?
I need to show you proof that Caucasians are the predominant ethnic group in the US and Canada? I kind of thought it was obvious.
Gee, here's the wikipedia entry for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#Ethnicity
Now, I'll let you figure out how to use Wikipedia to figure out that the combined population of the US+Canada exceeds that of Mexico and therefore there are more Caucasians in North America than other ethnic groups.
Then drctother's comment is just that much more wrong too, he's not stating b/c population differences, he outright says its b/c caucasian are more qualified.
Well that is outright absurd too.
So I don't agree that just b/c you have the grades, etc you definitely can make into any med school. Life is a b****, that's just it, sometimes even when you are overly qualified, you can still not make in, and that is a fact too.
No, you can't make it into ANY medical school. You can make it into SOME medical school. Yes, plenty of qualified people get turned down for whatever reason.
If you are within a standard deviation of the mean MCAT and GPA for the medical schools you apply to, you have a fairly reasonable chance of getting into A medical school. That probability increases with the number of schools you apply to, right?
Well, what gives you the right to start calling other ppl stupid or absurd?
I never called you stupid, nor absurd. I said you made an absurd claim.
I can easily say that you are pretty dense too by stereotyping asian to do well in physic section.
Your sarcasm meter needs recalibrating.
What, do east asian speak physics or math when they are born?
[sarc] Yes, obviously. [/sarc]
All I pointed out was verbal can be tough for those that are not familiar with language,
No, you said it was a racial thing. Then an immigrant thing. I agreed that immigrants may have problems in a non-native language, but that is independent of ethnicity.
and it sucks b/c sometimes language isn't just something you can improve a whole lot through 3 months of intensive studying.
Maybe you should study more than 3 months for the MCAT. That said, I'm pretty sure there are intensive language courses that are about 3 months long. So you can improve language skills dramatically in 3 months. Whether or not you can improve verbal reasoning skills on a standardized test in that span in a non-native language, probably tough, yes.
And btw, you won't just bomb the verbal section in japan or brazil, you prob would've score much lower in your PS or BS section b/c most passage are in those respective countries' native language too.
Literal much?
Like Jagger said, life can be unfair.
Not can, is. Anyone that escapes this fact hit the cosmic lottery.
Just don't be in a state of denial, racism does happen everyday, whether you notice it or not.
Sure, there is endemic racism in the world. This doesn't mean that the MCAT is a racist exam.
*BASH!*
Ok, now I feel better.
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