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When I was a PreMed at Univ of Colo there was a young man at my Org Chem bench who was never prepared, never understood, and never made above a “C”. I was shocked to hear him announce one day a full 6 weeks before the match that he had been accepted at CU Med. I asked him how that could be as I knew it was 6 weeks too soon to know this and he answered “My mother was Indian (Native American).” I was in the top 10 of 2,000 in Org Chem and I didn't get accepted at CU and had to go to Med School out of state. I hope his patients are doing well...

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When I was a PreMed at Univ of Colo there was a young man at my Org Chem bench who was never prepared, never understood, and never made above a “C”. I was shocked to hear him announce one day a full 6 weeks before the match that he had been accepted at CU Med. I asked him how that could be as I knew it was 6 weeks too soon to know this and he answered “My mother was Indian (Native American).” I was in the top 10 of 2,000 in Org Chem and I didn't get accepted at CU and had to go to Med School out of state. I hope his patients are doing well...

I'm very sorry to hear not only of the injustice that was inflicted upon you but of what was done to the public as a result of the idiot you reference being not only accepted but catapulted forward in the industry. 

Because you had to pay out of state tuition, you most likely had to pay 3- 5X or more for your education than this other person did and so you may have had student loans hanging over your head for many, many years.  I'm truly sad that this has happened to you and so many other excellent people.  "Affirmative action" has destroyed the lives and dreams of untold multitudes....I recall a news item from a few years ago where a young lady who was a straight-A student throughout High School as well as in her college prerequisites was denied entrance to the University of Washington Medical School because she was white....the fact that she was female wasn't 'enough' of an affirmative action boost to get her in.  She brought a lawsuit against the school but I believe that she lost that as well.   I've also been personally acquainted with about five Seattle Police officers who simply got sick and tired of year after year taking the Sergeant's exam and scoring at or very, very near the top but being passed over by minority officers, often from FAR down the list.  These fine officers all eventually gave up and took early retirement when they could, or just became disgusted and took second jobs.  I've seen and experienced it firsthand over the course of decades in the fire service as well.

I've often wondered how many people have died or have been needlessly harmed by lousy doctors being allowed to practice or incapable police or firefighters who weren't up to the job, as I'm sure you have as well.  "Affirmative action" is truly a cancer, and it's now metastasized  into the White House.

May God Help us all.

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