Constitutionally sure. I believe so.

I wonder how many people in this thread would find themselves agreeing with these following two assertions?:

1. Reparations should be made to everyone who is descended from ancestors that were previously slaves before the civil war.

2. Institutionalized discrimination against whites and other various government programs are the only way that descendants from former slaves can get ahead in the USA.

Forum needs a racists containment thread similar to the conspiratard thread imo

Both are absurd.

I wasn't, but I also don't mean every conceivable sub-culture. I was being lazy and using that word to mean "large cultural subgorup with outward identity characteristics that society uses to demarcate them as a class." For the purposes of this discussion, it's obviously fine to limit it to race.

The way texas funds it's public school system is ****ed up.

I have never seen a black doctor (besides on TV) so I doubt anyone is getting by on just AA.

"Caucasians represent 47.8% of all physicians. Black doctors only make up 2.3%, and Hispanic doctors about 3.2 %"

Being black roughly doubles your chance of getting in. There's a chart that's way more specific, but I'm on my phone atm.

I think AA is discriminatory but does not come close the definition of racism, which by the way means hate. I wish more people understood discrimination is not synonymous with racism but also not mutually exclusive. As long as we as a society continue to differentiate because of race we will continue to be divided.

I think it would be impossible to convince me that making decisions in part or entirely on the basis of skin color will assist the elimination of discrimination. As long as one group has a leg up in the competition we know as life...resentment, discrimination, and racism will occur.

I think there was a time when minorities needed a leg up, effectively discriminating the majority. Obviously there was a dramatic difference in quality of life brought on by years of oppression. I think this, by many efforts of many people, has been corrected to the point where its time for all things to be equal and further instill the principal of earning our way in the world as opposed to having it handed or partially handed to us. At some point, people have to make it in the world on their own merits and not need to rely on assistance.

fyi a 33 on the mcat is about the 90th percentile, 30 is 80th.

I assume that there are some med schools that are easier to get into than others; it'd be nice if there were a similar chart which attempted to control for that, and also to control for acceptance at the application versus applicant level.

I'd expect the same trend would exist even in those cases, though.

Yeah i'm not sure why that'd change much. that's all med schools btw just in case that's not clear.

Yeah, I don't think it'd change much, but if "White" or "Asian" applicants tended to apply to more or more competitive schools, the statistics would be somewhat skewed.

No. 9/25 != half