They use “first generation”, “economic hardship”, sob story essay scoring, regional preferences and plain old fraud to exclude any and every White male they think they can get away with.
White kids getting into the UC’s have to have a >4.2GPA and typically 6-8 AP courses behind them. You can be assured that the 35% “hispanic” students aren't anywhere close to that. But they get in with the aforementioned scams.
As for medical school, I know White females with a 3.9GPA in things like Biomedical Engineering and THEY can't get in.
The truth is that there are far too few med school slots in this country which is why foreign docs are now such a large cohort when they used to be almost unheard of. But the slots we do have are going to Protected Class people with average to good resumes in many cases, for “social justice”.
Yep. My daughter’s friend - graduated salutatorian from a competitive high school, speaks fluent Spanish, graduated from Princeton with a pre-med degree and with scores of 95% on the MCAT - was rejected by every med school she applied for.
She decided to give it another go the following year and was accepted by ONE medical school. She was going to give up after year two.
We recently attended a special ceremony for outstanding med students at her university, chosen by professors and fellow students, apparently it’s very prestigious.
She is about to finish her final year before residency.