I'm not Asian.
You know what the reality is as to which minorities benefit from affirmative action and which suffer because of it.
That's right, only 6% of Asians and 8% of whites with MCATs between 24 and 26 and GPAs from 3.2 to 3.4 are admitted to medical school while 31% of Hispanics and 56% of blacks are. Blacks and Hispanics have considerably more opportunity to advance than whites and Asians of equal ability. The same discriminatory pattern exists in every academic setting, and in corporate hiring. So your reference to lack of opportunities has no merit. The opposite is actually correct.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will put an end to this and we'll stop the racial discrimination that pumps out underqualified professionals and employees.
I'm fully aware of the problems with Affirmative Action...I wrote a paper about it in college involving disparities for Indigenous Americans.
Yet, at that time, I was schooled by my girlfriend (South Korean and a medical student) about a ratio that still needs to be fixed, and the United States' best solution for fixing it is still "Affirmative Action" because it is law.
She explained to me that regardless of "blacks or Indigenous" getting more opportunities right now...they are still
gravely underrepresented in medical school. In fact, I saw such with my own two eyes because most of my immunology, virology and medical ethics classes were in the same building.
Of the overall physician population in the United States:
- 56.2% identified as White, 17.1% identified as Asian, 5.8% identified as Hispanic, 5.0% identified as Black or African American, and 0.4% as Indigenous.
Until those numbers equalize or get close to being on the same level
(on par) while minorities are the fastest growing ethnic groups in America...we'll see the above lower percentage groups get favoritism in the application process, especially the ones that didn't have the same opportunities.
Yeah, of course,
it's discriminatory at some schools but it's the only way to equalize something that was
already discriminatory out of the gates for many many decades when minorities (including Asians) weren't allowed to attend Medical School or only allowed to attend a Medical School that cater to minorities.
Until those ratios become on par with each other or near to it...many medical school programs will be
silently unfair about their acceptance policy and will gladly eat any lawsuit targeting them for the unfair acceptance practice.
Yet, not discussed often enough is that there are ongoing
encouragement programs (not a law) that target those lower percentage groups to ensure education programs are on par with the elite in hopes that by the time they're in college and applying for Medical School or any other post-graduate studies...
- They will also have the network as in connections.
Simply, in a decade or two, the encouragement programs will ensure the scores by minorities are on par or better. It's a process and I've already seen the rewards of such with a few schools in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Kentucky last year sending the most Indigenous students to Ivy League schools than any other prior year that had Indigenous students attending Ivy League schools but
not because of Affirmative Action...
It was because of the encouragement programs under various different names in different states but with the same objective. Their academic scores were equal or better.
I saw it also with the Military College Academies that are trying hard to fix the overall disparities too in their officer ranks although they are the most educated than most universities.
- Their scores were on par or better...Affirmative Action is not part of the equation. That's what everybody wants...correct ???
Back to my ex-girlfriend, she believed fixing racism in a country with a long history of
oppressing minorities is a process that takes +100 years after the first laws of Civil Rights, Affirmative Action and Title VI...
imperfect laws.
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