Medical Schools Still Discriminate Based on Race, Records Show

City Journal ^ | Aug 06 2025 | Ian Kingsbury

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Trump administration should investigate them to stop potential violations of federal civil rights laws.

It’s been two years since the Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in college admissions. Nonetheless, at medical schools, evidence suggests that the discrimination continues.

That’s my conclusion after submitting Freedom of Information Act requests to all 93 public medical schools. I asked for several years of admissions data, including on students who matriculated in 2024, following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. I sought data on race, undergraduate grades, MCAT scores, and admission status, in order to assess whether racial disparities in admission standards persisted after the decision.

Twenty-three medical schools have answered my request, including flagship institutions in states like Tennessee, Wisconsin, Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado. The data they provided make it clear that schools are at least skirting the Supreme Court’s decision, if not violating it outright.

Accepted black applicants had lower average MCAT scores than accepted white or Asian students at all but one school, Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Thirteen schools accepted black students with average MCAT scores lower than the score of the average rejected Asian or white applicant. That suggests black applicants receive significant preferential treatment.

In fact, at two schools—Eastern Virginia Medical School and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health—black applicants were about ten times likelier to be accepted than were Asian and white applicants with similar grades and test scores. And Asian students face a conspicuously difficult road to acceptance, despite significantly better credentials on average. At Eastern Virginia, only 3 percent of Asian applicants were admitted in 2024, compared with 11 percent of blacks. At Wisconsin, the divide was even starker: 15 percent of black applicants were admitted, but only 2 percent of Asians...

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: die; medical; medicalschool; medicalschools; schools; woke

[Responsibility2nd]

Medical Schools Still Discriminate Based on Race

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I assume they mean how woke they are. They promote DIE over everything else.

Which is racist.

[TheDon]

Community based medical schools might resolve this issue, i.e. preferentially accept students from the local area. Hire professors for the school preferring those from the local area.

[ridesthemiles]

ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID DOCTORS

[bigbob]

Since the 1970’s

[Savage Beast]

We must urge the Trump Administration to put a stop to this ASAP! Medical schools--of all things!--must admit the most qualified people! It's like airline pilots! They must be trustworthy.

To select medical students--and doctors--according to anything other than academic qualifications is absolutely stupid and morally opprobrious.

I am a physician.

[scrabblehack]

Only 93 nationwide? That may not be possible. Are there private ones besides these ones?

[millenial4freedom]

Trump appears more concerned about Bitcoin and appeasing big tech overlords at the moment, unfortunately.

[Savage Beast]

Gee...I don’t agree...looks to me like he’s working over-over-time to correct the stupidity and malevolence of crooked politicians and their henchpersons.