Posted on 08/18/2020 8:21:05 AM PDT by george76
Stanford University will remove admissions test requirements for the upcoming school year in response to COVID-19...
Most notably, Stanford Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the country, will not require the MCAT.
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Stanford’s School of Medicine will not require students to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), the standardized test for medical degree candidates. Stanford Medicine said that applications can be submitted without the MCAT through September 30, 2020 “in fairness to all applicants.”
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Stanford's physics department will not have to submit scores for the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) or the GRE subject test in physics.
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The Stanford College Republicans said in a statement to Campus Reform that it disagrees with the move.
"The move by Stanford's medical school to drop the MCAT is a mistake. America needs her future doctors to be the most knowledgeable and well trained in the world. Out of Stanford medical school come many of the doctors and researchers on the front lines of working to combat the China Virus," the group said. "It'd be a shame if unqualified applicants come to Stanford as a result of this policy and we suffer the consequences in the coming decades."
National Association of Scholars Communications Coordinator Chance Layton also expressed concern regarding Stanford’s move.
Layton explained that even during the COVID-19 pandemic, there still needs to be a baseline standard for admission.
“All college programs should have some baseline for a standardized assessment of applicants. The GRE and MCAT provide that
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Layton said that this mentality “would erode the quality of higher education.”
Though other indicators of intellect and potential success exist, “none are as easily quantifiable as standardized test scores.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Don’t forget, a medical doctor can be a C or D student and still pass. A PhD or Doctorate usually requires a B or A to pass, but not in the medical schools.
What could go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
Many colleges are foregoing standardized testing requirements due to the SCAMdemic shutting down testing facilities.
MCAT isn’t the only criteria to get into med school, and is used more as a easy means to cull applicants than it is a measure of future success.
Undergrad transcripts play a larger role in determining future success in med school.
well THAT won’t end well..
Nice, more Affirmative Action doctors.
When will the brainiacs at Standford discover you can just mail them a check for 100k and they can mail you a diploma? Just think how that will drop to Standford’s bottom line...you won’t have all that over head and payroll to cover.
Just cut to the chase...
Oh this is scary. Some dopey backwater doc tried giving me a SSRI for pain a few weeks ago. Then ordered a CT scan for my lungs when the problem is in my throat.
We can now look forward to Affirmative Action medical doctors killing a lot of people through their ignorance.
You have got to be kidding me. Soon they will get rid of the licensing exams too. Would you want these people handling your medical care?
What do you call the person that graduates at the BOTTOM of their class in medical school?
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DOCTOR.......................
We can now look forward to Affirmative Action medical doctors killing a lot of people through their ignorance.
You would not want to leave any witnesses alive.
Gee, that diploma on the wall at the Dr’s office from the Medical University of Burkina Faso looks better all the time...
Doctor.
Trial lawyering soon to be a growth industry.
How about in fairness to future patients!
Because any idiot can perform brain surgery as long as he/she/it is of the proper liberal persuasion.
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And the class will probably be 90% “people of color”.
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