This kind of pissed me off...

[Lucca]

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I'm surprised the thread is still alive, so I'll add my two cents. At my school, as well as my state, and nation-wide, Asian-Americans are over-represented in medical school classes compared to their numbers in the population. So much for bias.

What a lot of high GPA/high MCAT scoring people have trouble understanding is that medical school admissions IS a meritocracy. It's just that "merit" isn't always based upon GPA and MCAT.

Admission to med school isn't an entitlement just because one is a good student or smart...it's a privilege.

2/3. So why can't we have a meritocracy in medical school admissions?

I think this is what most people miss. Another reason I feel most premeds would not survive working a job in any other industry since you have to probe yourself in other ways besides tests and scores.

 

[WillburCobb]

Well, OP was hit with the ban hammer, so something productive came out of this thread.

 

[ciestar]

I find it interesting the sports thing kept coming up over and over again.

In NCAA and professional sports it's based basically solely on ability. I doubt most sports team owners would really care what race anyone is as long as they have a team of players that is actually, well, good. That's what tryouts are for, if you suck, you don't play.

 

[deleted407021]

I called it.

 

[Ismet]

Closing thread, as OP has been banned