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[–] FBIglowNig 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

A lot of people here wouldn’t be successful regardless, true. That said, the racial boost blacks get in, say, college admissions is absurd, and they still manage to be underrepresented.

Look at allopathic medical school matriculation by race:

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Standards are lowered significantly for blacks.

SAT scores

[–] nomorefat ago  (edited ago)

I love how you think you're smart by only looking at one variable. An entrance test.And not only that you are not exactly quoting your sources, just linking random .png. MCAT seems to predict success in medical school. But the MCAT doesn't seem to predict clinical success, or clinical aptitude. Were you intelligent, able to take in multiple variables. Maybe, just maybe you would see where you went wrong with your assessment. Stupid fuck, probably fat.

[–] FBIglowNig 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Needlessly hostile. And you need to work on your insult game. Pack too much and you dilute the effect, and this argument isn’t about my intelligence or your intelligence; it’s about whether blacks have the bar lowered.

Your MCAT score and GPA are the two biggest components of a med school app. You’re graded on a curve in medical schools and law schools, and if your standardized test scores and previous academic performance falls below your peers, that strongly indicates that you’re going to struggle to compete.

Here are medical school attrition rates by race:

https://files.catbox.moe/y4dhe1.jpeg

Black dropout rates for poor academic performance are nearly 10x larger than that of whites. Or take the Sander study on law schools:

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/teaching/Ec%20137/Richard%20Sander%20on%20Affirmative%20Action%20in%20Law%20Schools.pdf

The data shows that blacks are heavily concentrated at the bottom of the grade distribution: 52% of all blacks, compared to 6% of all whites, are in the bottom decile.

The majority of black students were in the bottom tenth of their class unfortunately. Read further in and you’ll see that a smaller percentage of blacks can pass the bar as a result.

Affirmative action leads to the well known phenomenon of the mismatch effect, brilliantly described in this Atlantic article

Or here:

As much as we have discussed the "mismatch effect"—what takes place when students with academic credentials noticeably lower than their peers learn less as a consequence of that intellectual estrangement—I believe that we still haven't fully appreciated its negative consequences. We know that mismatched law-school graduates, on average, fare far worse on the bar exam than their non-mismatched peers. And we've generally thought of the harmful mismatch effect as impacting racial minorities, because they're often admitted with dramatically lower standardized-test scores than their peers. But the negative effects of mismatch on non-minorities have been overlooked: this second set of harms often remains hidden because these students are only a small percentage of a relatively large demographic group. Nonetheless, we should consider them as well when we analyze the scope of the mismatch problem.

https://reason.com/volokh/2018/07/20/the-mismatch-effect-a-danger-for-student/

Black students simply don’t have the necessary aptitude to succeed or even to perform moderately well in the schools they’re placed in. In medical schools, they drop out. In law, the fail to pass the bar. It’s not fair to them to put them in places where they can’t succeed just because they underrepresented in those places.