A Northern California medical school that ranks applicants based on how disadvantaged they are could be a model for medical schools across the U.S. after the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions last week, the New York Times reported. The Univeresity of California, Davis Medical School's Associate Dean of Admissions Dr. Mark Henderson explained how the medical school evaluates applicants based on a "socioeconomic disadvantage scale" or "S.E.D." Every applicant is ranked from zero to 99 based on their background, such as family income and parental education. Applicants are given an adversity score based on eight categories which include "family income, whether applicants come from an underserved area, whether they help support their nuclear families and whether their parents went to college," the Times reported. For example, children of doctors receive a score of zero on the SED scale, Henderson revealed. The UC Davis logo with a soccer game and bike riders in the background. University of California at Davis. Davis, California. Taken February 2, 2015. (Getty Images) The university says their admissions decisions are based holistically, using the S.E.D. score "combined with the usual portfolio of grades, test scores, recommendations, essays and interviews." Henderson said there was "no set formula on how to balance the scale with the academic record," but touted how a simulation showed underrepresented students "grew to 15.3 percent from 10.7 percent" and economically disadvantaged students "tripled to 14.5 percent of the class from 4.6 percent." The U.C. Davis model, implemented in 2012, has gained national attention for bringing diversity to the once mostly-White student body, the Times reported. In its most recent incoming class of 133 students, half belong to groups that are under-represented in medicine, the school revealed. 36% of students were Asian, 30% are Hispanic, 14% are Black and 15% are White, UC Davis reported. "A vast majority of the U.C. Davis class — 84 percent — comes from disadvantaged backgrounds, and 42 percent are the first in their family to go to college," the Times said. UC Davis did not respond to a request for comment by time of publication. UC Davis was at the center of a landmark affirmative action case in 1978 where the Supreme Court struck down racial quotas in college admissions, but it allowed race to be considered as a factor in the admissions process. California banned affirmative action from public employment and education in 1996. In another historic decision last week, the Supreme Court rejected using race as a factor in college admissions as a violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. President Biden announced his administration would push colleges to integrate measures of adversity in college admissions to increase diversity in response. Fox News Digital previously reported how medical schools have become more race-focused in recent years. A recent analysis from the Association of American Medical Colleges found out of 101 medical schools in the United States, 43% of them "have promotion and tenure policies that specifically reward faculty scholarship and service on DEI topics." The report also found that 100% of the schools "have admissions policies and practices for encouraging a diverse class of students." Fox News' Brian Flood and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report. Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Read more.
Dumbasses. What other modern country does such bullshit? Only kalufornia So let's see... Josh, honors student who studies hard and has a 3.8 GPA gets adversity score of zero, and isn't admitted to medical school. But gangbanger Jamal, who has a 2.4 GPA and repeated 6 classes, gets a 99 adversity score and gets admitted to medical school. No way in fuck ima go to doctors with degrees from colleges with those admission standards. What happened to common sense? #notwoke
Schools that want diversity will get it as there are many ways to do so such as this.since most schools wont want diversity to go lower than what they are any increase in Asian students will come more at the expense of white students than black and brown students.
I have never heard of a gangbanger with a 2.4 GPA and repeated 6 college classes getting into any medical school. Please provide the full name of one such person and the medical school that the student attended !!! In contrast, I have heard of a White female, nude dancer at an erotic peep show club, 3.8 GPA at Cornell who repeated Organic Chemistry lab class 3 times and gave her professor a blow job...he then passed her. Rumor - He often visited the erotic peep show club on his week-end trips to N.Y.C. and then one night he recognized one of the new nude dancers as a student he failed 3x in his Cornell lab class back at Ithaca, New York. She then got a lower MCAT score than her Asian friend with a similar GPA from Cornell but no class repeats. She applied and was accepted into Stanford medical school...he was not accepted. Fortunately, for him, he did get into Univ. of Minnesota medical school. Today, she's a damn good neurosurgeon and he's a good pediatrician. In contrast, I have heard of a few gangbangers going to community college or junior college and then transferring into a decent 4-year college after getting their life on track...leaving the gangs behind. Yet, none of them went on to medical school. 97% of all U.S. medical schools require a 3.0 or higher college GPA. The 3% that do not...a person still must perform well on their MCAT exam and then impress the medical board in the in-person medical school interview with an extraordinary story to explain the low GPA and then a top MCAT score so that they'll approve the applicant's entry into their medical school. On top of the above, that student would have needed one hell of an impressive internship in their undergraduate workload that resulted in one hell of a recommendation for the student to go to medical school. wrbtrader
This guy offers trading services??? I wonder what would happen if his clients got a taste of his ET postings about Blacks... He is sso stupid he doesnt even know how medical school admissions work.....the hardest schools to get into even if a school is ranked 55, if you dont have the GPA and MCAT....you aint getting in. Each school takes 150-200 on average so maybe 7,500 get admitted to top 50 schools and I bet 50,000 apply.