I hardly know where to start. First of all, for whatever reason, this never occurred to me. I knew that standards were being lowered for black students in a lot of colleges, but even in the medical field?! What is going on with our country? How is it that we have become so racist without seeming to realize it? And what are we doing to a generation of black youth who are going to suffer the consequences of this!
I’m so sorry about your niece because I know she deserves better. I’m sorry for all of the young minority people who are not being challenged to do better or know whether or not they are even capable in the first place to take on the career path they’ve chosen. I’m not just sorry, I’m angry, too.
How many lives have to be ruined before DEI and affirmative action end up on the scape heap? A doctor, my wife recently saw, was part of a discrimination lawsuit because he called out an incompetent resident who was some sort of minority. The doctor who called him out on his poor performance is a minority as well. NO ONE is allowed to point out poor or sub-par performance. The only goal is increase the number of minorities in fields like medicine, engineering, etc. As you pointed out a qualified minority then starts to wonder if they are really good at what they do or were they hire to satisfy a quota.
Pre-med students deserve an open, and fair, competition for admissions. My niece deserves rigorous competition and the satisfaction of coming out on top fair and square. We harm black medical students five ways from Sunday by tinkering around with admissions standards and truthful feedback. That's how you learn in any profession. That's how you become a better doctor, lawyer, writer or anything. Everyone was not meant to be a doctor. Everyone was not meant to be a surgeon. It is far better in the long run to have a 1 to 2 % black medical school class where blacks are evenly distributed in the top 5% , the middle and the bottom 5% of the class as opposed to a diversity-driven medical school class where 1/2 of all black students are in the bottom 10% of the class. Like who benefits when the majority of black medical school students are bringing up the rear? Not the black medical school students. (If I am wrong in my statement of the facts, I invite readers to correct me.)
The dominance of Igbo and Nigerian immigrant doctors in the U.S. is a different matter. Should we care that 1% of blacks in America represent over 70% of black doctors? I have only questions, no answers. Thanks for your comment. These questions are not going away anytime soon. In the 1970s and 1980s, I suspect black doctors cared more about being the absolute top doctors in their field. Kind of that Dr. Charles Drew ethos. Dr. Drew ranked second in his medical school class in the Class of 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew Nowadays, too many black medical school students seem caught up in activism....do no harm, students. Do no harm.
If I were Chairman of a medical school admissions committee, my mission would be the admission of more future Charles Drews, not just more quota numbers of black students. What would it take to generate more applicants like Charles Drew? I don't have the answer.
I hardly know where to start. First of all, for whatever reason, this never occurred to me. I knew that standards were being lowered for black students in a lot of colleges, but even in the medical field?! What is going on with our country? How is it that we have become so racist without seeming to realize it? And what are we doing to a generation of black youth who are going to suffer the consequences of this!
I’m so sorry about your niece because I know she deserves better. I’m sorry for all of the young minority people who are not being challenged to do better or know whether or not they are even capable in the first place to take on the career path they’ve chosen. I’m not just sorry, I’m angry, too.
How many lives have to be ruined before DEI and affirmative action end up on the scape heap? A doctor, my wife recently saw, was part of a discrimination lawsuit because he called out an incompetent resident who was some sort of minority. The doctor who called him out on his poor performance is a minority as well. NO ONE is allowed to point out poor or sub-par performance. The only goal is increase the number of minorities in fields like medicine, engineering, etc. As you pointed out a qualified minority then starts to wonder if they are really good at what they do or were they hire to satisfy a quota.
Pre-med students deserve an open, and fair, competition for admissions. My niece deserves rigorous competition and the satisfaction of coming out on top fair and square. We harm black medical students five ways from Sunday by tinkering around with admissions standards and truthful feedback. That's how you learn in any profession. That's how you become a better doctor, lawyer, writer or anything. Everyone was not meant to be a doctor. Everyone was not meant to be a surgeon. It is far better in the long run to have a 1 to 2 % black medical school class where blacks are evenly distributed in the top 5% , the middle and the bottom 5% of the class as opposed to a diversity-driven medical school class where 1/2 of all black students are in the bottom 10% of the class. Like who benefits when the majority of black medical school students are bringing up the rear? Not the black medical school students. (If I am wrong in my statement of the facts, I invite readers to correct me.)
The dominance of Igbo and Nigerian immigrant doctors in the U.S. is a different matter. Should we care that 1% of blacks in America represent over 70% of black doctors? I have only questions, no answers. Thanks for your comment. These questions are not going away anytime soon. In the 1970s and 1980s, I suspect black doctors cared more about being the absolute top doctors in their field. Kind of that Dr. Charles Drew ethos. Dr. Drew ranked second in his medical school class in the Class of 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew Nowadays, too many black medical school students seem caught up in activism....do no harm, students. Do no harm.
If I were Chairman of a medical school admissions committee, my mission would be the admission of more future Charles Drews, not just more quota numbers of black students. What would it take to generate more applicants like Charles Drew? I don't have the answer.