What on Earth Is Going on at the University of Wisconsin’s Medical School?

The American Spectator ^ | July 22, 2025, 10:04 PM | Ellie Gardey Holmes

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The extent of its racial discrimination is eye-popping.

Medical schools hold the weighty responsibility of deciding who can become a doctor. So one would hope that they would approach this task with the goal of selecting those persons who have the greatest potential to become good doctors. Yet medical schools have long been riddled with leftist admissions officers who prioritize their racial preferences over improving the health care system — and saving people’s lives.

There has been some limited movement away from racist admissions decision-making since the Supreme Court ruled two years ago that “affirmative action” is an illegal violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Alas, many medical schools are dodging the law in pursuit of their racist agendas.

One of the worst offenders — and shockingly so — is the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. They are not even trying to hide the extent to which they are racially discriminating. (RELATED: Creative Destruction Comes to Universities)

We learned the sordid extent of this last week when the organization Do No Harm released data it had gathered from 23 medical schools through Freedom of Information Act requests.

At the University of Wisconsin medical school, black applicants are six times more likely to be admitted than Asian applicants. When black and Asian students test at the same percentile in the upper-middle range of MCAT scores, this increases to a twelvefold differential.

This means applicants of different races have entirely separate sets of admissions standards at Wisconsin. The average accepted black student had an MCAT score in the 62nd percentile, while the average white student was in the 86th percentile and the average Asian student was in the 87th percentile. Astoundingly, the average MCAT score for white and Asian applicants who were rejected was higher than the...

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“I can tell what kind of medicine a physician practices by the way his secretary answers the telephone.”

Please elaborate.