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Wow, Asians really do get hit hard by affirmative action

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Coffeebeanz 1 day ago#1
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I was interested in the subject after Harvard had that lawsuit recently, so I decided to look up medical school acceptance rates based on academics and ethnicity. It's almost cruel how high the standards are for Asian applicants.

I had an MCAT of 30 and a GPA of 3.4 and had a hell of a time getting in.
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Muffinz0rz 1 day ago#2
model minority is a bitch
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On_The_Edge 1 day ago#4
Such bullshit, not even just for asians, but for society too. We're depriving society of the best doctors because of political correctness. Honestly, fuck this.
On_The_Edge posted...
Such bullshit, not even just for asians, but for society too. We're depriving society of the best doctors because of political correctness. Honestly, fuck this.

As an Asian it sucks that we're kept to such a high standard but realistically I'm okay with it because Asians seem to be doing okay with that

My biggest problem is how all of this ignores South and Southeast Asians by lumping them in together with East Asians
Oh_Boy_ 1 day ago#6
This in now way indicates demographics actually in medical school, or any school. A vast majority of the non-white students are Asian. I'm betting that taking the two polar opposite results on this chart that there is close to a 300 to 1 ratio of Asian to black applicants. Even if more than twice as many Asian applicants actually get in(in reality the disparity is bigger) the ratio of accepted applicants looks bad and skewed towards blacks. This is what Harvard meant by the plaintiffs playing with numbers.

If these schools want a diverse campus, they have to consider race.
MawiIe-Mega 1 day ago#7
how is this acceptable to anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together
Oh_Boy_ posted...
This in now way indicates demographics actually in medical school, or any school. A vast majority of the non-white students are Asian. I'm betting that taking the two polar opposite results on this chart that there is close to a 300 to 1 ratio of Asian to black applicants. Even if more than twice as many Asian applicants actually get in(in reality the disparity is bigger) the ratio of accepted applicants looks bad and skewed towards blacks. This is what Harvard meant by the plaintiffs playing with numbers.

If these schools want a diverse campus, they have to consider race.

Yeah I'm curious about the number of people in each category applied vs how many hot accepted. It could be the same situation with black men being the majority in the nba vs how many non black men actually try to get in.
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Coffeebeanz 1 day ago#9
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Man, with a nearly perfect application it's still 50/50
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TomNook20 1 day ago#10
Oh_Boy_ posted...
This in now way indicates demographics actually in medical school, or any school

No one said it did. They're talking about acceptance rates, not how many people from each made up group goes to the school.

Oh_Boy_ posted...

If these schools want a diverse campus, they have to consider race.

This is true, at the end of the day unless you're flipping a coin for each application, you have to discriminate on some basis, and the tricky thing is figuring out what discrimination is considered fair or unfair.
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Fony 1 day ago#12
KStateKing17 posted...
Oh_Boy_ posted...
This in now way indicates demographics actually in medical school, or any school. A vast majority of the non-white students are Asian. I'm betting that taking the two polar opposite results on this chart that there is close to a 300 to 1 ratio of Asian to black applicants. Even if more than twice as many Asian applicants actually get in(in reality the disparity is bigger) the ratio of accepted applicants looks bad and skewed towards blacks. This is what Harvard meant by the plaintiffs playing with numbers.

If these schools want a diverse campus, they have to consider race.

Yeah I'm curious about the number of people in each category applied vs how many hot accepted. It could be the same situation with black men being the majority in the nba vs how many non black men actually try to get in.


As someone who actually recognizes and speaks up for Asians when they're discriminated against, I agree 100%. The pool of black applicants to these schools is microscopic, and the pool of Asian applicants is the opposite, dwarfing every other race. the number of actual Asian students is very high, despite them being less than 7% of the U.S. population in total they make up as much as 30% of students at many schools.

Obviously, they're being rejected at higher rates, but that's because the schools want to shape their own student body and they more heavily filter the more numerous applicant pools. This whole issue is framed as specifically, Ivy League schools unfairly rejecting Asians to make room for black people(who didn't see that coming?). Whites benefit the most from this type of selectivity, especially ones who get in due to legacy status or their parents' wallet(25% of most Ivy schools).

Even AA itself benefits white women and gay white men more than the people it was meant to help. And Asians don't live in some meritocracy bubble out here, they face very hard discrimination at work compared to a white of equal intelligence, work ethic and educational background. They're actually poorer and have lower career trajectories than a comparable white person, but because socially "good" stereotypes are always attached to them, they bury their heads to this fact.
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Coffeebeanz 1 day ago#13
Patty_Fleur posted...
Coffeebeanz are you white?


I'm half Chinese.
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Squall28 1 day ago#14
What always bugged me growing up was that if you do well at anything, it's because you are Asian.

Asian gets 100 on Calculus test? Eh whatever he's Asian

White guy gets 90 on Calculus test? Omg he's so smart!
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Fony 1 day ago#15
TomNook20 posted...
Oh_Boy_ posted...
This in now way indicates demographics actually in medical school, or any school

No one said it did. They're talking about acceptance rates, not how many people from each made up group goes to the school.

Oh_Boy_ posted...

If these schools want a diverse campus, they have to consider race.

This is true, at the end of the day unless you're flipping a coin for each application, you have to discriminate on some basis, and the tricky thing is figuring out what discrimination is considered fair or unfair.


Even without such strict discrimination, If every race was screened the same...Asians would still have by far the worst looking acceptance rate. This being the only angle of attack looks not so great for the argument. Assuming that Harvard and other schools were filtering all applications equally, the Asian acceptance rate would go up by maybe 1 or 2%. I know that you wouldn't be happy with that either, but it is what it is.
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TheMikh 1 day ago#16
If there's one area where there should be pure meritocracy over affirmative action, it's medicine.
Oh_Boy_ 1 day ago#17
Coffeebeanz posted...
Patty_Fleur posted...
Coffeebeanz are you white?


I'm half Chinese.


lmao, r/hapas in the house. explains alot.
Coffeebeanz 1 day ago#18
People usually find out when they ask why I know Mandarin.
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TomNook20 1 day ago#19
Fony posted...
Asians would still have by far the worst looking acceptance rate

If you were to create a table just like in the OP without any preference given to any race, the acceptance rates would be the same for all races, all else equal.
Fony 1 day ago#20
TomNook20 posted...
Fony posted...
Asians would still have by far the worst looking acceptance rate

If you were to create a table just like in the OP without any preference given to any race, the acceptance rates would be the same for all races, all else equal.


Impossible because of inequality in applications. For example, the black rate is between 50 and 80%. You can't even admit 50% of Asian applicants because it exceeds student vacancies. I guess schools could physically expand the campus and hire more staff...

Also, for those with the illusion that blacks are shown preference, there are so few black applicants to these schools that any school can admit 100% of them and still have several times more white and Asian students.
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Fony posted...
This whole issue is framed as specifically, Ivy League schools unfairly rejecting Asians to make room for black people

Reminder: Model minority myth was developed as a way to pit Asians and black people against each other by directly comparing them with pointed language in press and media, despite societal revulsion toward both.
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Coffeebeanz 1 day ago#22
Fony posted...
TomNook20 posted...
Fony posted...
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If you were to create a table just like in the OP without any preference given to any race, the acceptance rates would be the same for all races, all else equal.


Impossible because of inequality in applications. For example, the black rate is between 50 and 80%. You can't even admit 50% of Asian applicants because it exceeds student vacancies. I guess schools could physically expand the campus and hire more staff...

Also, for those with the illusion that blacks are shown preference, there are so few black applicants to these schools that any school can admit 100% of them and still have several times more white and Asian students.


He's saying that each individual applicant in a specific score/GPA bracket would have the same odds of getting in.
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Black students are the most likely to practice in black communities.
Also the reason Native Americans are basically automatically accepted. 

Lowering the acceptance rates of minorities will deprive minority communities of doctors they need.
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TomNook20 posted...
Fony posted...
Asians would still have by far the worst looking acceptance rate

If you were to create a table just like in the OP without any preference given to any race, the acceptance rates would be the same for all races, all else equal.

I mean would it really? Like it was said before, it looks like that chart is showing what percentage of each race gets through based off the number of applicants. Say 20 people apply for something with 10 asians and 5 black people. If three from both of those groups get in, the black group would still have a higher percentage.
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TomNook20 1 day ago#25
Fony posted...

Impossible because of applicant inequality in applications. for example, the black rate is between 50 and 80%. you can't even admit 50% of Asian applicants because it exceeds student vacancies.


You wouldn't admit 50%, you'd admit an equal percentage to each group. How large or small a group is is not relevant for that.
Fuparulez 1 day ago#26
Muffinz0rz posted...
model minority is a bitch


I still think the notion of calling Asians minorities is hilarious when more than half of Earthlings are Asian.
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Fony 1 day ago#27
Coffeebeanz posted...
Fony posted...
TomNook20 posted...
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Impossible because of inequality in applications. For example, the black rate is between 50 and 80%. You can't even admit 50% of Asian applicants because it exceeds student vacancies. I guess schools could physically expand the campus and hire more staff...

Also, for those with the illusion that blacks are shown preference, there are so few black applicants to these schools that any school can admit 100% of them and still have several times more white and Asian students.


He's saying that each individual applicant in a specific score/GPA bracket would have the same odds of getting in.


If every single person regardless of race had a 10%, 20%, 30%, or whatever shot...the rate as seen in this chart would-still-be-the-same because the most important factor in this rate is the number of applicants per race, that's how they're getting these numbers in the first place. 

If colleges want to really "keep Asians out" and limit the number of applicants all together then the rate would look better...but that would be real hard racism, literally robbing Asians of the chance to even shoot their shot.

If Asians had a higher chance to get ion to college at any given GPA bracket, they would STILL show such dysmal numbers on a chart like this because of how the numbers are obtained. Asians are actually very, very disproportionately over represented in higher education. And i'm not complaining about that, no one is.
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Fony 1 day ago#28
TomNook20 posted...
Fony posted...

Impossible because of applicant inequality in applications. for example, the black rate is between 50 and 80%. you can't even admit 50% of Asian applicants because it exceeds student vacancies.


You wouldn't admit 50%, you'd admit an equal percentage to each group. How large or small a group is is not relevant for that.


Not possible.
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TomNook20 1 day ago#29
Fony posted...

If every single person regardless of race had a 10%, 20%, 30%, or whatever shot...the rate as seen in this chart would-still-be-the-same because the most important factor in this rate is the number of applicants per race, that's how they're getting these numbers in the first place.


No they would be equal. The number of people in each group is irrelevant to the discussion.

If you accept 100 people with no regards to race, and everything else about them is equal, and you have 200 applicants, 50 from each "race" (bleh I feel disgusting just using that word, but w/e), the acceptance rate for each group will be 50%, same as the total acceptance rate.

Now say you have the same scenario, but this time you have twice as many asian people. So 250 applicants total, 100 asian, 50 for each of the others. The acceptance rate will be 40% for each group, same as the total acceptance rate.
TomNook20 1 day ago#30
did you guys really not know about this stuff

i thought most people knew they were just okay with it like most racism
Lol
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Fuparulez 1 day ago#34
TomNook20 posted...
Fony posted...

If every single person regardless of race had a 10%, 20%, 30%, or whatever shot...the rate as seen in this chart would-still-be-the-same because the most important factor in this rate is the number of applicants per race, that's how they're getting these numbers in the first place.


No they would be equal. The number of people in each group is irrelevant to the discussion.

If you accept 100 people with no regards to race, and everything else about them is equal, and you have 200 applicants, 50 from each "race" (bleh I feel disgusting just using that word, but w/e), the acceptance rate for each group will be 50%, same as the total acceptance rate.

Now say you have the same scenario, but this time you have twice as many asian people. So 250 applicants total, 100 asian, 50 for each of the others. The acceptance rate will be 40% for each group, same as the total acceptance rate.


Except you aren't getting 100 Asians and 50 African Americans, you're getting 5,000 Asians and 50 African Americans. There's enormous disparity in application rate.
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TomNook20 1 day ago#35
Fuparulez posted...
Except you aren't getting 100 Asians and 50 African Americans, you're getting 5,000 Asians and 50 African Americans. There's enormous disparity in application rate.

Regardless of what the numbers are, that doesn't change that the percentages would still be equal if everything else is equal.
TomNook20 posted...
Fuparulez posted...
Except you aren't getting 100 Asians and 50 African Americans, you're getting 5,000 Asians and 50 African Americans. There's enormous disparity in application rate.

Regardless of what the numbers are, that doesn't change that the percentages would still be equal if everything else is equal.
duh
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TomNook20 1 day ago#37
ModLogic 1 day ago#38
TomNook20 posted...
the tricky thing is figuring out what discrimination is considered fair or unfair.

well blacks are on the bare minimum tolerance list and asians are not. so its not that hard to figure out. its why when america says "diversity", it doesn't include asians.
ModLogic posted...
TomNook20 posted...
the tricky thing is figuring out what discrimination is considered fair or unfair.

well blacks are on the bare minimum tolerance list and asians are not. so its not that hard to figure out. its why when america says "diversity", it doesn't include asians.

Asians: white until it matters
Brilliant. Let’s lower standards and set PC racial quotas for something as life and death as medical school. Unbelievable. I don’t want to be treated by the affirmative action doctor.
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tennisdude818 posted...
I don’t want to be treated by the affirmative action doctor.

How are you going to know that they are "affirmative action"? Are you going to reject every Black doctor that comes your way?
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tennisdude818 12 hours ago#42
Solar_Crimson posted...
tennisdude818 posted...
I don’t want to be treated by the affirmative action doctor.

How are you going to know that they are "affirmative action"? Are you going to reject every Black doctor that comes your way?


No. I don't want to discriminate by race like an AA apologist.
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MacadamianNut3 10 hours ago#43
It's pretty amazing that someone decided to mention acceptance rates and not even something as basic as the number of applicants per group, among other things. If I pulled that kind of extremely lazy statistics shit in any paper I submitted for conferences or even a workshop (where you pretty much can just vomit out text about what you plan on doing in the near future and brainstorm with others), I would get my ass torn to shreds in reviews. 

You'd also think someone who took the MCAT would have better critical thinking skills and look up supplemental information but its Coffeebeanz, so I'm gonna guess that data was probably included on whatever website she originally found it on but she left it out and then hosted it on imgtc to get rid of the url

Because we all need attention on CE sometimes
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foreveraIone 10 hours ago#44
MacadamianNut3 posted...
It's pretty amazing that someone decided to mention acceptance rates and not even something as basic as the number of applicants per group, among other things. If I pulled that kind of extremely lazy statistics shit in any paper I submitted for conferences or even a workshop (where you pretty much can just vomit out text about what you plan on doing in the near future and brainstorm with others), I would get my ass torn to shreds in reviews. 

You'd also think someone who took the MCAT would have better critical thinking skills and look up supplemental information but its Coffeebeanz, so I'm gonna guess that data was probably included on whatever website she originally found it on but she left it out and then hosted it on imgtc to get rid of the url

Because we all need attention on CE sometimes

so are you saying she needs some meds?
MacadamianNut3 10 hours ago#45
foreveraIone posted...
so are you saying she needs some meds?

Either that or it's pretty obvious now why she had a "hell of a time" getting into medical school
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Flockaveli 10 hours ago#46
It’s bullshit. People should stop applying to medical school. There’s way cooler shit to study out there.
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FrisbeeDude  attack always10 hours ago#47
tennisdude818 posted...
Brilliant. Let’s lower standards and set PC racial quotas for something as life and death as medical school. Unbelievable. I don’t want to be treated by the affirmative action doctor.


Lmao of course you wouldn't wanna be treated by one
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MacadamianNut3 10 hours ago#48
tennisdude818 posted...
Brilliant. Let’s lower standards and set PC racial quotas for something as life and death as medical school. Unbelievable. I don’t want to be treated by the affirmative action doctor.

Oh man if you're super concerned about a lower GPA/MCAT score black or hispanic doctor out there roaming around (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you have no problem with anybody in that higher tier of scores treating you regardless of race), you should also be super curious for more info to help pinpoint these AA doctors who made it through medical school but are still subpar at what they do because of......GPA/MCAT scores from some amount of years ago

And then also hope that when they are found, they aren't replaced by a white or asian doctor who was in the same tier. That would be one hell of a twist
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Alucard188 10 hours ago#49
Muffinz0rz posted...
model minority is a bitch
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Omega Hunter 10 hours ago#50
MacadamianNut3 posted...
It's pretty amazing that someone decided to mention acceptance rates and not even something as basic as the number of applicants per group, among other things. If I pulled that kind of extremely lazy statistics shit in any paper I submitted for conferences or even a workshop (where you pretty much can just vomit out text about what you plan on doing in the near future and brainstorm with others), I would get my ass torn to shreds in reviews. 

You'd also think someone who took the MCAT would have better critical thinking skills and look up supplemental information but its Coffeebeanz, so I'm gonna guess that data was probably included on whatever website she originally found it on but she left it out and then hosted it on imgtc to get rid of the url

Because we all need attention on CE sometimes


This. Let's compare an applicant pool of 100 asians to 7 blacks.
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    Coffeebeanz 10 hours ago#51
    Omega Hunter posted...
    MacadamianNut3 posted...
    It's pretty amazing that someone decided to mention acceptance rates and not even something as basic as the number of applicants per group, among other things. If I pulled that kind of extremely lazy statistics shit in any paper I submitted for conferences or even a workshop (where you pretty much can just vomit out text about what you plan on doing in the near future and brainstorm with others), I would get my ass torn to shreds in reviews. 

    You'd also think someone who took the MCAT would have better critical thinking skills and look up supplemental information but its Coffeebeanz, so I'm gonna guess that data was probably included on whatever website she originally found it on but she left it out and then hosted it on imgtc to get rid of the url

    Because we all need attention on CE sometimes


    This. Let's compare an applicant pool of 100 asians to 7 blacks.


    None of that would even matter if there were no quotas. The average acceptance MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race. I know you think you're clever about how statistics work, but you really aren't. Asians would only be overrepresented because they apply in higher numbers, which isn't entirely unreasonable. 

    If there were no racial makeup quotas, everyone would have the same likelihood of being accepted if they had equal test scores and GPAs. Yes, the acceptance rates of each race would be different because the number of applicants would be different. But the average accepted MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race.

    Where you get into trouble is if no, or relatively few, applicants of a certain race meet or exceed the average acceptance scores. But I'll let you decide what should be done about that.
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    Coffeebeanz posted...
    I know you think you're clever about how statistics work, but you really aren't.

    Believe or not it doesn't take that much book smarts to know that percentages alone are never a good statistic. So if you think I think I'm clever because I and other people pointed out something that even high schoolers know, well thanks I guess. Here's something else I guess I think I'm clever at because I know how to do, going with this reasoning

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    Coffeebeanz posted...
    Yes, the acceptance rates of each race would be different because the number of applicants would be different. But the average accepted MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race

    Which would also be affected by another factor that has been conveniently omitted for the sake of this topic such as where they apply, since a quick Google search has turned up acceptance rates ranging from 1% to 28% depending on the school (and that's just from Googling "medical schools with highest acceptance rates"). Since this topic isn't about one school in particular and instead about all medical schools, that average accepted MCAT and GPA would not be the same regardless of race if you have notable subset of a group applying to extremely competitive programs and another applying to ones with a higher ratio of available spots to applicants. 

    I'd feel better about fulfilling your request to jump to conclusions and make decisions about medical school acceptance (just because I pointed our your shitty use of statistics) if I had more info about this. Maybe it's on this site you got the chart from?
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    spincr 9 hours ago#53
    Coffeebeanz posted...
    vfRG0Cx

    I was interested in the subject after Harvard had that lawsuit recently, so I decided to look up medical school acceptance rates based on academics and ethnicity. It's almost cruel how high the standards are for Asian applicants.


    This is how they drag down the quality for everyone
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    DeadSite 8 hours ago#54
    And we still make more per capita than whites. Imagine if they accepted more of us
    Fony 6 hours ago#55
    DeadSite posted...
    And we still make more per capita than whites. Imagine if they accepted more of us


    Adjusted for education you make less. Many more millions of poor and atupid whites in American than Asians in total. Again, head in the sand or up your ass. The smartest demographic has no grasp of numbers and statistics and how they actually work, guess that proves even good syereotypes are bullshit.
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    DeadSite 6 hours ago#56
    Fony posted...
    Adjusted for education you make less

    Ok
    Sephiroth1288 6 hours ago#57
    How can anybody justify denying people who would be better doctors based on the color of their skin?
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    VoightKent 2 hours ago#59
    On_The_Edge posted...
    Such bullshit, not even just for asians, but for society too. We're depriving society of the best doctors because of political correctness. Honestly, fuck this.

    Being booksmart in no way means you're going to be socially acceptable as a doctor
    VoightKent 2 hours ago#60
    Godbe_Bryant posted...
    Lowering the acceptance rates of minorities will deprive minority communities of doctors they need.

    Also this. Call me next time an Asian doctor wants to work in the hood.

    If Asians want to be more prevalent in society they need to decide to have more kids. But that won't happen and so things will remain the same.
    DeadSite 2 hours ago#61
    VoightKent posted...
    Also this. Call me next time an Asian doctor wants to work in the hood.

    If Asians want to be more prevalent in society they need to decide to have more kids. But that won't happen and so things will remain the same.

    Lol
    Oh_Boy_ 2 hours ago#62
    Baby is mad but can't refute anything. Aww.
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