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Hey everyone. I had an interesting inquiry... I know that there are certain groups underrepresented in medicine and therefore are looked upon more favorably at admission time.
Would a physical disability be one of those favorable things? I know you would HAVE to identify yourself on the application as being handicapped.
And that's another thing. I've always been bothered as to the whole you can't be discriminated upon based on ethnicity/race, gender, handicap, etc--but why is is legal to ask race on an application (or birthplace, because if you look up where I was born it's a a whole bunch--99.99%--o white folks as far as the eye can see and further)? No, demographics isn't a good enough answer... I don't care if you need to report the whole "who applied here by catagory" that can be done totally separate from the application (1 part should go to records with your race/gender/handicap and the other part goes to the decision makers with NO identification as to your race/gener/handicap).
Any thoughts?
-Liz
Would a physical disability be one of those favorable things? I know you would HAVE to identify yourself on the application as being handicapped.
And that's another thing. I've always been bothered as to the whole you can't be discriminated upon based on ethnicity/race, gender, handicap, etc--but why is is legal to ask race on an application (or birthplace, because if you look up where I was born it's a a whole bunch--99.99%--o white folks as far as the eye can see and further)? No, demographics isn't a good enough answer... I don't care if you need to report the whole "who applied here by catagory" that can be done totally separate from the application (1 part should go to records with your race/gender/handicap and the other part goes to the decision makers with NO identification as to your race/gener/handicap).
Any thoughts?
-Liz