Harvard Law Class of 1988.
Posted on 12/16/2012 2:17:18 PM PST by Altura Ct.
When it comes to becoming a physician, the academic rigors, years of schooling, and personal sacrifice common to the effort are well-known. This process is a sort of rite of passage, an intellectual marathon that only the best and brightest can complete. As such, medical schools should select candidates best-suited to excel throughout school and cultivate the skills that will allow them to practice in the best health care system in the world. The process by which these candidates are selected, however, may come as a shock.
In examining documents made public by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), it becomes apparent that race plays a disturbingly large role in the medical student application process. The documents provide data about the applicant pool from years 2009-2011 -- namely, the number of applicants within a given GPA and MCAT score range, and how many of those applicants gained acceptance to a school. These data, it turns out, are organized by race.
A quick scan of the documents reveals that white students applying to medical school with a GPA in the 3.40-3.59 range and with an MCAT score in the 21-23 range (a below-average score on a test with a maximal score of 45) had an 11.5% acceptance rate (total of 1,500 applicants meeting these criteria). Meanwhile, a review of minority students (black, Latino, and Native American) with the same GPA and MCAT range had a 42.6% acceptance rate (total of 745 applicants meeting these criteria). Thus, as a minority student with a GPA and MCAT in the aforementioned ranges, you are more than 30% more likely to gain acceptance to a medical school.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No, not amazing at all. The 'Rats just tell them different lies.
Haven't you heard/seen the 'Rats crowing after the election, about how their GOTV effort micro-segmented their target demos (identity politics on steroids), and tailored their GOTV prompts using poll-tested "payoff lines" almost guaranteed to move that demo to get off their ass and go vote against THE HORRIBLE THEM's (meaning us)?
If I were a white-trash fringey tinfoiler drinking straight bourbon all night in a beat-up trailer in Kingman, Arizona, four slots down from the space where Timothy McVeigh used to live, I might infer from the above and tell my drinking buddies that the PTB are preparing a genocidal pogrom of elderly whites, and are recruiting doctors they feel will be more "approachable" for the "end-of-life" jobs.
But then I don't read those websites.
Why? You want your lawyer to be a guy who knows a guy?
The simple truth is that, after hearing the experiences of a physician soninlaw, a physician brotherinlaw, and a physician fatherinlaw, a young white male will be passed over time and time again for a black female in entering med school...many times the affirmative action candidates are then incapable, academically, of making it through the full course, or in some cases, have been dropped for cheating, in an effort to keep up. The end result is a tremendous loss for taxpayers financing their education, as well as contributing to the shortage of physicians...just the facts, my friends, untinged by political correctness.
Reminds me of Michael Jackson’s doctor——had to be a AA product. He administered a powerful drug to MJ and left him there alone-—to make calls to his girl friends-—trying to line up sex for the night-—as MJ lay dying.
When he went back and found MJ in distress he started resucitation on the bed-—when every doctor knows this should be administered on the floor-—a hard surface.
Most egregiously-—he was giving MJ pulmonary resucitation when MJ needed cardio help.
Several brillian doctors who testified at the doctor’s trial said they were deeply disturbed at the treatment given MJ-—particularly that a doctor would administer
a drug commonly used in the operating room-—to a person in his bedroom——without having the proper medical equpipment available.
MJ’s doctor is now in jail——he was paid $100,000 per month by MJ.
Yes, I have no interestin dealing with people who were advanced their credentials as part of their race/gender preference.
“Why? You want your lawyer to be a guy who knows a guy?”
No, I want my lawyer to be skilled. The fact that he’s Italian, like myself, is a bonus to me.
Exactly. It’s bad enough if you get bad service at a restaurant or get someone that can’t make change at the supermarket.
But when you’re talking permanent injury or death, take that AA sh*t and shove it; I don’t play games with the stakes that high.
Harvard Law Class of 1988.
Besides being lowest paid,they are in a “dying”profession ,what with declining birthrates.
I couldn’t believe some of the females reasons for becoming Dr’s.One particular resident said she went to medical school,to meet and marry a Dr,which she did.She said she would not work once she finished her residency.
The things people will tell you.
This is no surprise to me. My son, a 2009 graduate of Pepperdine University, with a 3.79 GPA and a score of 32 on the MCAT (average score is 26 BTW)was only accepted to two of the 18 schools to which he applied. Neither were schools he decided to attend as they were both far from home and on the high end of the tuition scale. Neither were large or well known schools. He was wait listed at 5 other schools but did not move off the list.
When he began the process, which is a miserable endeavor in and of itself, he was given a list of schools that he was most likely to be accepted into with his “numbers.”
What I observed in the secondaries were essay questions that made it obvious the selection committees were interest in two things; was he a minority with a deprived or underprivileged background or did he have a hook, i.e. was he gay or did he have a handicap or disability or had he overcome some tremendous obstacle in his life?
We really had to struggle to answer some of the questions because he is a normal young man, bright, dedicated, competent and hard working, but he comes from a two parent family, lived in the same house all his life and never faced a tragedy or hardship.
He decided not to go through the application process again because it’s stressful and costly so he will not be a doctor.
I told him many times during those times that if God’s will was for him to do this with his life, he would be accepted and go, end of story. He was not and therefore will not, so God must have other plans for him.
As it stands now, with Obamacare the law of the land, I think it was actually a blessing that he will not be going into massive debt to be a part of the deteriorating medical profession.
A blessing, but still it stings. Especially after seeing this.
“But when you’re talking permanent injury or death, take that AA sh*t and shove it; I don’t play games with the stakes that high.”
That’s exactly what happens when they use AA for cops/firemen. I wouldn’t use a doctor that could “check a box”, either.
“That’s exactly what happens when they use AA for cops/firemen. I wouldn’t use a doctor that could “check a box”, either.”
I have an uncle that was a fireman. He took early retirement ASAP exactly because the AA’s that were being allowed to join the department were woefully unqualified; they got the jobs because of skin color or gender or both. No way was he going to rely on them to save his life.
That’s all I needed to hear for a real-life example of the wonders of AA...
Yes; too much dash-cam video of female cops being knocked out with one punch, too. Imagine that was your back-up...
“Imagine that was your back-up...”
Exactly! My uncle said the same thing about the FD. He got ribbed for retiring so early (and no, he didn’t move away to FL or AZ; he’s still here in MA), his comment is: “What good is a larger pension if I’m dead?”
AA in action.
Yeah, give me an AA doctor...
and in Fire Departments and Police Departments.
Isn’t that great?
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