Originally Posted by
hummingbear
Not sure exactly how they’re defining “people of color”, but 40% of our country’s population is non-white. Around 50% are women. It shouldn’t be too hard to fill half a class with other than white dudes without sacrificing standards.
Like it or not, college and med school admissions in particular have shown that in order to forcibly diversify a career field, you have to lower standards. Now, it’s completely debatable as to whether lowering standards to a degree will appreciably affect the final product, but standards are lower nonetheless. If they weren’t, the vast majority of matriculants to medical school would be Asian. Perhaps though, it would motivate the others to work harder.
https://www.aamc.org/media/6066/download