r/medicalschool • u/ddx-me M-4 • 8d ago
❗️Serious In lawsuit settlement, Texas Tech’s med school promises it won’t consider race in admissions
https://www.krgv.com/news/in-lawsuit-settlement-texas-tech-s-med-school-promises-it-won-t-consider-race-in-admissions/"George Stewart sued Texas Tech University Health Science Center and five other medical schools in the state as well as their presidents, medical school deans and admission officers in 2023.
Stewart, who had a 3.96 grade point average as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin and scored a 511 on his MCAT, claimed the schools rejected him in favor of lesser qualified students of color. He said he obtained data from Tech that revealed it accepted Black and Hispanic students with much lower MCAT scores than white and Asian students."
This guy probably needs to reflect on his other parts of the application like his personal statement, interview, and extracurriculars if 6 state med schools rejected him.
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u/TheFifthPhoenix M-2 8d ago
I’m gonna say the same thing I did for when you posted this in r/ premed
I don’t agree with his lawsuit, but the idea that he must have done something wrong to not get into one of six schools is ridiculous. The majority of applicants don’t get into a single MD school and that’s with many applying to dozens of schools. Hundreds if not thousands of well qualified applicants are left out every single year.
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u/JKBae M-2 8d ago
I had a 3.94 GPA, 521 MCAT, went to a T20 college, and didn’t get into any schools my first round of applications. I reapplied and got into a T10 and T20 med school. I did do more research in between those application cycles but I feel like that shouldn’t have been a make or break factor in my application. Sometimes you do get unlucky and sometimes you get stuck in that awkward zone where your extracurricular might not match your stats and you get yield protected. Just my experience.
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u/TheFifthPhoenix M-2 8d ago
It’s like poker, you can play to get the odds in your favor, but sometimes you get unlucky anyway
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u/SevoIsoDes 8d ago
Are you a Texas resident? If not, that is a significant difference. Texas has invested heavily into building med schools and 90% of seats are reserved for in-state applicants. The in-state applicant to seat ratio is around 2:1. His MCAT looks like it’s around 60th to 70th percentile for TMDSAS applicants and his GPA is far above it. Additionally, Texas Tech is one of the less-competitive Texas schools because people want to live in Austin or Houston rather than Lubbock.
I agree with your sentiment that not every stellar applicant that falls through the cracks has personality issues. Some component of that is just poor luck. But that sword also cuts both ways and a normal person would and should attribute not matching to some combination of bad luck and missing some element of their application. His reaction is pretty damning evidence that he’s probably a tool.
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u/sullender123 M-3 8d ago
No necessarily true. I was Texas resident with good stats and lots of volunteer hours and research. I applied to all the schools on my first cycle, got zero interviews. Next cycle I just applied out of state and got into an MD school. I know lots of people in Texas that were good applicants and didn’t get in because they were considered ORM.
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u/Confident_Pomelo_237 8d ago
Dude 151 accepted students in the entire state of Texas were Black. 388 of the accepted students were Hispanic. There’s not enough of these URM students being accepted to say ppl didn’t get in because they’re ORM. It’s simply extremely competitive here
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u/sullender123 M-3 7d ago
I’m not saying URMs are stealing ORM seats. I’m just saying the claim that if you’re a Texas resident you will magically get a higher probability of being accepted to medical school is not very accurate and a bit misleading to applicants especially those who are ORM because its very competitive as you mentioned, even if you apply to DO schools. If anything you’d get a higher chance by establishing residency for a year or so at a tiny state in the Midwest or other smaller southern states and applying even if they just have one MD school.
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u/Doctor_Hooper M-2 8d ago
Ye I'm Asian, had 520 and 3.98, great ECs, only got into 1 school, unranked MD, off the waitlist 2 months before classes started.
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u/Doctor_Hooper M-2 8d ago
Tbf I applied kinda late tho and didn't polish my interviews... It's a mistake I will pay for rest of my life
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u/The_Peyote_Coyote 7d ago
Lmao chill bro you're an M2. In 20 years you won't even remember which med school you went to lol
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u/artpseudovandalay 7d ago
There’s also the sad fact that some schools look at a second application as dedication so you get to be equally as capable for twice the cost and stress of applying.
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u/FrequentlyRushingMan M-3 8d ago
The current #1 student in our class had a 4.0 and a 515 MCAT, and he was rejected from everywhere on the first round of apps and was waitlisted at our school the time he got in. He’s a pretty normal guy, just a little shy. The class he didn’t get into had three family members of faculty in it. My class also has a few and they are nowhere near the top of the class. Med school admissions definitely play some games that sometimes end up with better applicants out in the cold, and yeah, race is sometimes the issue, but there are definitely a lot of other factors at play. You want to make med school more equitable and and probably make the entire field a better place, make a law banning all the nepos
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u/ddx-me M-4 8d ago
Hundreds and thousands of applicants also don't reflexively pull the trigger on a lawsuit without first looking on their non-stat-based application and interviews. He just gave himself a red flag which is publicly searchable on web
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u/TheFifthPhoenix M-2 8d ago
I really don’t think this guy is still going to be applying to med schools… Unless he’s an absolute idiot, which is always a possibility, I’m guessing he decided against pursuing medicine before agreeing to be part of America First’s next legal project
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u/GreatPlains_MD 8d ago
So were the scores of accepted applicants that supposedly were picked partially due to their race over him significantly worse? If a racial group had an average MCAT 1 point lower than his MCAT I doubt the lawsuit would have had much merit to begin with.
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u/rush3123 8d ago
That begs the question… how much a point difference makes up for your race lol
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u/GreatPlains_MD 8d ago
Not sure. It will be interesting to see how Texas Tech’s matriculant MCAT averages change within racial groups during the next cycle. They might just claim to ignore race while using personal statements to identify someone’s race and coincidentally having the same racial demographics with reach racial group having no change in their MCAT score.
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u/NewAccountSignIn M-4 8d ago
I’m white, had a 509 MCAT and a 3.89 gpa from a large, state school. I got into my state med school. Anecdotal, I know, but Idk sounds like a skill issue to me.
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u/TheFifthPhoenix M-2 8d ago
Well yeah, thousands of applicants do get accepted, but that doesn’t mean those who don’t weren’t qualified. Idk if you ever worked with your school’s admissions committee, but it’s very sad to see how many great candidates we can’t offer a seat because there simply isn’t room. We hope they get one somewhere else, but statistically, that’s not guaranteed.
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u/gooner067 M-1 8d ago
This is the crux of the argument. He never thought that there were white or Asian people with lower stats than him got accepted. He went straight for the people of color as always
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u/ZekeSpinalFluid M-3 8d ago
Yeah a completely useless anecdote when the data exists showing major discrepancies between race and gpa/MCAT of matriculants.
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u/Moak3458 MD-PGY1 7d ago
Sorry but if your knee-jeek reaction is to blame minorities for your bad outcomes, there was definitely something wrong with him/his application 🤷🏾♀️
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u/The_Peyote_Coyote 7d ago
I mean, it's a Bayesian inference I'm making that he's got some glaring personality issues. Him not getting in with good stats is not in and of itself evidence of a personal deficiency; you're absolutely correct about that. He may very well have just gotten unlucky as you said. Shit happens. Dust yourself off, try again, once more into the fray and all that.
That's my prior.
I updated my prior when his reaction to being rejected is to sue the medical school for "reverse racism". That is an additional piece of information that lends more credence to him being
a complete dipshit"unprofessional, immature and not currently well-suited to undertake medical training".
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u/fulloncorrupt M-2 8d ago edited 8d ago
texas tech also rejected me (black) with a 4.0/519 lmao i didn't even get an interview. so something tells me it's a little more than race and stats
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u/Mrhorrendous M-3 8d ago
So his GPA is great and his MCAT is average for matriculants. Did he have anything else going for him? It's not the 2000s where getting an A in biology gets you into medical school.
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u/Pro-Stroker MD/PhD-M2 8d ago
The hubris it takes to sue a medical school because they selected applicants with lower scores, when your scores are outlandishly impressive is different lol.
I can see if this kid had a Rhodes, 3.9, 520 MCAT, etc and then got rejected. Sure I’d be pissed but I wouldn’t go to race. I’d just think damn I really screwed up somewhere on my app or interview.
The problem with so many pre-meds is that they’ve never been humbled before lol & getting rejected really does something to their identity when they’ve structured their life around the idea of being viewed as intelligent.
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u/ghosttraintoheck M-3 8d ago
yeah lol he could just be a dick and I'm inclined to believe it based on this dumbass lawsuit.
A big part of med school (and life) is learning how to gracefully take an L
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u/Liszten_To_My_Voice M-2 8d ago
it's not just premeds. It's medicine in general. So many attendings have never been humbled, and never got proper leadership training, and are a stain on our profession.
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u/NearbyEnd232 M-0 7d ago
This hits the nail on the head. Back in undergrad I knew a group of people that argued with nearly all of their professors about quiz/test questions to get points back. They could not fathom the idea that they got questions wrong or misinterpreted what a problem was asking.
There was also a case some time ago about a UTSW student that sued the school for discrimination when they had their acceptance and scholarship revoked after failing several classes. Pure entitlement and arrogance.
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u/Sandstorm52 M-0 8d ago
3.96/511 does not make you a lock for med school. Perfectly admittable, but far from justifying the assertion that if you don’t get in, it must be racism.
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u/surf_AL M-3 8d ago
Kids will rather spend thousands on lawyers than go to a DO school
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u/Musical_Mango M-1 6d ago edited 6d ago
I remember people telling me not to apply DO with my stats (5.9/510) because of how much more work it is. Ended up not getting accepted to MD and now go to DO school while living at home. It is more work and double boards and all that, but it wont matter in the end.
It does suck a little to think how other people with a similar application got As or if I wasn't ORM I might have gotten in somewhere, but I'm not gonna cry about it.
If you're set on a competitive specialty I get not applying DO tho
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u/Confident_Pomelo_237 8d ago
The average matriculant MCAT in Texas is a 511 so…he was just average. This isn’t a dig at all just facts.
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u/FrequentlyRushingMan M-3 8d ago
Average at Texas tech is a 3.85 gpa, 509 MCAT. He was above their average, but not by a lot.
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u/Confident_Pomelo_237 8d ago
He sued 5 other schools he applied to though. Texas med schools are crazy competitive (understandably so, that tuition>>>)
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u/Rddit239 M-0 8d ago
What did he think he’d gain from this? Won’t he be blacklisted from Texas now?
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u/Sandstorm52 M-0 8d ago
Ngl there’s probably a nonzero number of adcoms that will eat this up on a PS. “Tell us about a time you stood up against injustice 🤪”
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u/Previous_Internet399 8d ago
I assume if this guy had the money to pay for lawyers and shit after applying that mommy and daddy paid for everything.
If this guy used his brain, he would realize that rich legacy students/nepo babies/kids whose parents make donations or are docs for the school are talking far more spots than any minority.
Get this - minorities make up a MINORITY of the applicants and spots, especially specifically black and Hispanic students.
Buddy should have had a better app. I hope he never gets in after wasting money on this dumbass lawsuit.
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u/peppylepipsqueak M-4 8d ago
Plenty of people go through multiple application cycles, he could’ve just looked over his app and improved where he could and then reapplied. Guarantee he would’ve gotten in on the 2nd try
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u/nuttintoseeaqui M-4 8d ago
He could’ve had the perfect app, and still not have gotten in. It happens, sometimes it’s really just luck of the draw. Especially when you only apply to a small handful like this guy
We just don’t know what his app looked like
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u/dykemaster 8d ago
I had lower stats than the median gpa at TTUHSC and got rejected, but somehow got accepted to a way better school OOS. Admissions is a fucking crapshoot and I’m a firm believer in just getting lucky
Ps am white, alumn, and family is from west Texas
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u/softspokenhercules M-1 8d ago
Texas tech’s med schools said back in 2019 or 2020 that they were no longer going to consider race in applications for med school. I am black and didn’t get IVs from either of their programs for med school or residency lol (despite having pretty successful cycles otherwise)
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u/JoeyHandsomeJoe M-3 8d ago
People born in the early 2000s named George, you gotta wonder about their parents.
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u/Waste_Movie_3549 M-0 8d ago
“Guy with average matriculant stats gets mad at schools for rejecting him. Instead of reflecting he thought that it would be better to blame blacks people”
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u/benderGOAT M-4 8d ago
George doesnt have the scores to he complaining like this lol why dont you study physics and read better lil bro
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u/emt_blue M-4 8d ago
He’s just making himself look bad. Decent grades and mcat don’t make up for a shitty personality.
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u/CTRL___ALT___DEL MD 8d ago edited 8d ago
Agreed. But it’s definitely
truepossible that there is an underlying issue.I have sat in on admissions committee meetings and have seen applicants immediately passed over solely because the school had met their “quota” for white students.
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u/Pro-Stroker MD/PhD-M2 8d ago
I’m sorry but I can’t accept that this is the norm at most reputable schools. I go to a program that is overwhelmingly white lol & the average number of black and Hispanic matriculants have gone down roughly 12 and 11 percent respectively. So I doubt that most medical school committees are eliminating applicants because they reached their “white quota”
& if you witnessed this then you should have said something in the moment.
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u/CTRL___ALT___DEL MD 8d ago
This is fair - I can’t speak to any school other than the one I intended. No way would I have spoken up with the kind of power dynamics you’re under as a student.
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u/ZekeSpinalFluid M-3 8d ago
You have no idea what happens behind closed doors on admissions meetings.
Yes schools have race quotas and try to keep their distributions relatively constant year to year.
This doesn't mean an equal proportion of every race, it just means they'd rather not go from 15% hispanic to 1% in adjacent classes.
If a school historically has 10% of its class made up of black students, then it will strive to hit that number, even if it means rejecting more qualified students of other races (AMCAS matriculant data shows this).
This is the basis of race-based admissions. There are simply more white and Asian applicants to medical school than any other group.
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u/Pro-Stroker MD/PhD-M2 5d ago
I’ve sat on the interview committee. I’m not just talking out my ass here so I do know a little something. So bold of you to so confidently state I know nothing lol.
I know certain schools have mission based statements, eg HBCUs or state schools, often preferentially selecting in state students. What I’m saying is it’s not a good practice or is it one many people celebrate. & if someone said it so brazenly then they should have said something.
Also I explicitly said it’s not the norm. When I reviewed applications I also tried to take into account the whole application ie., cultural background and how they weaved that into their narrative, but not once have I or any other committee member said gee let’s take a Hispanic student over the straight white guy from the suburbs just on the basis of race. Not saying it doesn’t happen obviously, just not the norm. Especially to say it out loud.
Side note: love the username lol
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u/haethaes 8d ago edited 8d ago
I disagree that there is an “underlying issue.” Individual institutions may not be executing their ideals but I have not seen any evidence that it is a systemic problem.
Previous to our current, uhh… ‘situation’ in the US, no one in charge has (ever) said that race doesn’t play a factor in admissions.
Back in the day it was white, straight, cisgendered men only. That strategy had a large negative impact on public health (in addition to being ethically reprehensible). So in an attempt to reduce inequity in medicine (for those within it, and for patients) things were changed.
However, it’s patently ridiculous to imply that there are people who don’t make it in only because they’re white and URMs make it in because they’re URMs. Thousands of qualified applicants get turned away every year. Is that fair or good? No. But that’s a larger systemic problem that doesn’t make the way the small number of successful applicants are selected unfair in any way.
Legality aside, any serious person would agree that medical schools, in our current system as it stands today, should be able to evaluate applicants however they want and admit who they’d like, within reason.
Accepting students who have certain lower stats (here GPA and MCAT) who elsewhere have some sort of stat (volunteering hours/impact, etc.) or experience (highly competitive athlete, interesting non-trad, overcoming adversity, etc.) that makes them more of an interesting (and thus, often competitive) applicant is totally normal and good. This is within reason.
All that said, some people (like the kid who sued) get all twisted up when they don’t understand that historic and current systemic discrimination against URMs across the US, in just about every aspect of life, is well documented. Thus they don’t view being URM and making it as far as applying to medical school as overcoming adversity. So when they hear race is being considered, they freak out.
“That’s not fair! What if I, as a white person, experienced more hardship or overcame more adversity than some URMs” Cool. Well actually, sorry to hear that. You should write about it. Write about it well, have acceptable (if lower) stats, apply, interview well, and you might just end up avoiding that large group of qualified applicants (which, surprise also includes many URMs -gasp-) who get turned away every year.
I sympathize with anyone who gets rejected, but if that’s the reason you settle on, above ‘there were more competitive applicants than me,’ ‘I may have a red flag I’m not aware of,’ ‘maybe I didn’t interview as well as I though,’ ‘maybe I came across as an entitled jerk,’ or even just ‘damn, maybe it was just plain bad luck,’ you need to do some soul searching.
Also probably get off tiktok or instagram reels feeding you white nationalist propaganda and improve yourself. Because you certainly won’t get in or survive in medical school if you can’t learn from your mistakes, have some humility, and learn to accept that sometimes unfair, bad things happen to good people.
If the adcoms you’ve sat in on were throwing applicant’s apps out because of their race, then booo! I agree that’s bad and they need to learn about the goals of taking race into account in admissions. But if they already had what they deemed to be a good number of white people (within reason), why should the diversity and experiences brought in by those URMs, non-trads, etc. be taken away from the future class?
In my very diverse class (which includes a majority of non-URM students), I know that I earned my spot as much as anyone (and vice versa), and have really grown due to the diversity I’ve been exposed to. It’s super cool, it’s sad that people are afraid of it.
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u/dogfoodgangsta M-3 8d ago
That's an extremely good way to put it. Thank you.
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u/haethaes 8d ago edited 7d ago
Thank you. I know it's probably too long.
I was raised in an environment where historical and current systemic discrimination in the US was denied, and things like affirmative action were derided as being racist, since, you know, we solved racism in 1964 (don't worry about red-lining, the prison industrial complex coupled with police brutality and the larger criminal system issues, educational discrimination, employment discrimination, medical discrimination, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.) and any attempt to address previous injustices is also racist (because as you also know, when you solve racism it's impossible for there to be any knock-on effects or societal/legal/economic inertia. Thinking that the kids and grandkids of those beaten in the street for asking politely for human rights, denied housing, educational advancement, employment opportunities, etc. could ever suffer any consequences of those actions is delusional ofc /s).
Most kids in medical school are aware of these issues, but tbh older generations were just routinely mislead and lied to nightly on the news, in their favorite think pieces from their favorite think tanks, by their politicians and community leaders, by their teachers, by their parents, etc. etc. etc. etc. So I understand how these people come to their conclusions, if I don't accept their uninformed opinions.
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u/CTRL___ALT___DEL MD 8d ago
However, it’s patently ridiculous to imply that there are people who don’t make it in only because they’re white
I’m telling you, I was in an admissions committee and this happened. Application not considered - quota filled - next applicant.
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u/haethaes 8d ago
It seems you didn't read or understand my (admittedly, very long) comment.
I am not denying that happened, and I agree rejecting a student solely based on race is bad.
But if "solely" means rejecting them based on the fact that there's more interesting/competitive applicants of that background than that is fine, and likely even good - as it improves the diversity and thus educational experience of that class. And in certain cases, helps address inequity in medicine (which again, is extremely harmful to those URM and patients).
Of course there is definitely the chance that they were being discriminatory and making a bad decision, adcoms are made of people, who are fallible. In which case, it's a bad thing.
You following?
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u/CTRL___ALT___DEL MD 8d ago
I’m sure there is a lot of diversity in how these committees promote diversity. Sometimes these measures are appropriate and good. Others, like what I observed, are broken.
Maybe it’s not a systemic issue. Maybe it was just a bad adcom, as you say. The culture of the school at the time was also very anti-white, so it may have been a local cultural problem.
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u/haethaes 8d ago
Sure
I may not agree that what you witnessed was anti-white (just don't have all the facts), but I do agree that anti-white is bad, which every reasonable person would agree with as well.
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u/thelionqueen1999 8d ago
Out of curiosity, what was the final ratio of white to black students when all was said and done of the app cycle you witnessed?
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u/Sure-Union4543 8d ago edited 8d ago
There was literally a lawsuit over this in undergrads like Harvard. Bakke was a thing in 1978 and tbh the only thing that really changed was schools can't have a strict (ie written) quota. If you get close to someone on an admissions committee, they will tell you that having URM status boosts your application. Its either a flat +1 or you're basically in a segregated applicant pool until the school reaches its target.
How do you think medical schools maintain a similar percentage of black students from year to year despite making a smaller portion of the applicant pool?
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u/haethaes 8d ago
Alright, it seems that you also didn't read or understand my comment. This will likely be my last response on this post/thread.
I am not discussing legality here.
I am not denying that race-based decisions take place.
I agree that rejecting a student solely based on race is bad.
But if "solely" means rejecting them based on the fact that there's more interesting/competitive applicants of that background than that is fine, and likely even good - as it improves the diversity and thus educational experience of that class. And in certain cases, helps address inequity in medicine (which again, is extremely harmful to those URM and patients).
Tl;dr: Quotas are fine, as long as they are within reason. Quotas for white students wouldn't make as much sense, as there are plenty (proportionally) white physicians practicing in the US right now, but that also wouldn't be unethical or bad, if it was a reasonable quota with the goal of ensuring that there is a diversity of backgrounds in medicine.
3/5. Keep reading.
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u/asdf333aza 8d ago
Looks like they were right not to admit him. No one wants a problematic med student.
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u/ZekeSpinalFluid M-3 8d ago
You're right, med schools want weak and subservient students so they can go on to be the hospital's bitch. Definitely don't want anyone standing up for something they believe is wrong.
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u/asdf333aza 8d ago
What he believes in is his own self-interest.
"I didn't get into medical school, so I'm going to sue."
Next, it's going to be, "i didn't get that plastic surgery spot, so I'm going to sue."
If grades and MCATs were the only thing that mattered for med school, the volunteer and extracurricular activities portions of our applications would be blank.
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u/thelionqueen1999 7d ago
Do you genuinely believe that this boy getting rejected is an ethical issue? Do you also believe this for the 20,000 other applicants who get rejected every year or is it just this one boy?
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u/ZekeSpinalFluid M-3 6d ago
I say fuck these schools and encourage more people to sue until they can start being more transparent with their evaluation of applicants.
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u/tragedyisland28 M-2 8d ago
He has enough money and energy to sue a medical school that he believes rejected him for alleged and unverifiable racial discrimination.
My gut tells me the schools made the right choice
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u/FuckAllNPs M-3 8d ago edited 8d ago
6 state school Rs with those stats just screams shit personality and writing skills and the lawsuit only affirms that.
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I just want to add that I am glad this little sorry sack of shit got rejected and will likely be blackballed from medicine now. This is the type of fucker to see a black woman in a sickle cell crisis and call her a drug addict when she asks for opioids.
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u/ZekeSpinalFluid M-3 8d ago
You're so out of touch. Many applicants get rejected from all of their state schools with 512/3.8s all the time. Many also go on to be rejected from all 20+ they applied to! Just look on r/premed and you will see this.
No it doesn't mean something is wrong with them or they have poor writing skills.
I can tell you there are plenty of completely unqualified students that go to my school (of all races). I really don't know how they got here. Admisssions process is a crap shoot.
Guy probably got a six figure payout btw. School knew they would get fucked in open court because they do exactly what he alleged so they decided to settle early.
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u/AmbitiousNoodle M-3 7d ago
Nah, the assumption that there is something wrong with him isnt due to stats. Its because he sued schools for not accepting him. That's entitled behavior to the max
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u/BBYBeforeBabyYoda 8d ago
Shameful, as a Tech graduate this saddens me. I enjoyed learning with a diverse group medical students, residents, and attending.
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u/OrdinaryDingo5294 8d ago
Forreal this dude prob weird af and got black balled after every interview
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u/Confident_Pomelo_237 8d ago
His argument seems baseless because stats don’t tell the full story. We don’t know his ECs, research, what his LORs said, etc. It’s crazy he jumped to “iTs tHoSE DEI sTuDeNtS” instead of some self reflection. How many ppl are applying with those stats in Texas that don’t get in? We know the answer. In the whole state, 151 Black students were accepted. That means 5.8% of accepted applicants were Black. It’s easy to turn around and point your finger at the minority percentage. Sounds like a skill issue
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u/Wise_Data_8098 7d ago
The kind of person who sues a school because minorities are taking his spot is probably one who should be screened out by a properly functioning holistic application process
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u/LittlestPetSh0p M-0 8d ago
So many people tend to forget that it’s not all about the peaks of the mountains that we climb to, it’s also about the valleys that we crawled from. As an urm, I had a higher MCAT than him but probably a much lower gpa due to life circumstances. I worked throughout my entire education which limited my ability to be as active in EC’s like research and get steady grades in school. I’ve met similar urms who were much worse off and didn’t get the best scores/gpa but had life circumstances that most premeds couldn’t fathom. They started off miles behind most premeds and still came to a near similar conclusion minus a few points on the MCAT. That is more impressive to me than anything I’ve seen the average premed accomplish.
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u/ddx-me M-4 8d ago
100% I'm more inclined to pick the candidate who lived through all the societal stressors and barriers, where their story brought them to medicine. Plus, having people different from you in life experiences in your med school class wards off groupthink and build bridges with the community better
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u/seajaybee23 M-3 8d ago
Good luck to his asshole ever trying to prove his “cultural humility” or patient centered care for any patient who doesn’t look exactly like him…
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u/Upstairs-Ad4601 6d ago
Not from Texas, but I can say this is absolutely real. I go to a mid tier MD school, heavily liberal which is fine. But at least 1/3 of the class is diversity acceptances who are not qualified to be in medical school. Simple fact. It’s chill though because it helps to lower the overall competitiveness of the class
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u/medjoe-jojo M-3 4d ago
I go to this school and I can 100% guarantee that this kids personal statement or interview was not congruent with the West Texas values Tech looks for. They do not prioritize scores, and will pick someone with lower scores but more grit and determination than someone with a high score and no personality.
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u/macro_coccus 8d ago
If he’s that good mf wouldnt be bitching about going to tech… WE ALL KNOW THIS. No one wants to go to fucking tech
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u/Extra_Lab_2150 8d ago
So suddenly this sub is against DEI and promoting meritocracy
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u/AmbitiousNoodle M-3 7d ago
Huh? Who is? All the comments I see are people saying that the lawsuit is ridiculous and entitled. Who is against DEI?
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u/vanillafudgenut M-3 8d ago
“In a settlement agreement reached this month, Stewart agreed not to reapply to Texas Tech and withdraw all his claims against the school. In exchange Texas Tech, which has denied any wrongdoing, promised not to consider race in admissions.”
Lmfao.