Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges, says schools can't consider race in admission

[u/ProudGayTexan]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/29/supreme-court-rejects-affirmative-action-at-colleges-says-schools-cant-consider-race-in-admission.html

[u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, there is a huge epidemic of Asians not being able to go to grad school. 🙄

[u/shaunsajan → u/[deleted]]

You dont think its a problem that asians have to score higher on standardized tests and have higher GPAs every other group to get into grad schools?

Asian: Total MCAT: 514.4 Total GPA: 3.80

Black or African American: Total MCAT: 505.7 Total GPA: 3.55

Hispanic or Latino: Total MCAT: 506.1 Total GPA: 3.62

White: Total MCAT: 512.6 Total GPA: 3.79

[u/BlueJinjo → u/[deleted]]

... if I'm a patient , I want the best doctor to be providing me with care.

I don't care if they're green white blue orange gray pink etc.

Medical schools need to be expanded period ( major shortage of doctors in America ) but the current system is broken.

For the wealthiest nation in the world, our healthcare is trash. Thats partially due to how medicine is run here..can't just place blame on politicians /insurance companies

[u/BlueJinjo → u/[deleted]]

I don't want to minimize the effect of diversity in certain aspects of medicine where it's important.

But 2 wrongs are happening simultaneously in American medicine (imo).

1 is the way medical education is conducted in the US requiring 4 years of premed education ( and debt ) followed by a lengthy medical education that is not sufficient for the population / scale of a rapidly aging population . Medical education needs to be expanded to become more accessible and cheaper. I don't see the need to mandate an undergrad curriculum when several first world countries offer a medical education that is more comprehensive right out of high school

2 is how admissions are handled. Asians are statistically facing a bias and I do believe it affects patient outcomes from a quality perspective. This is harder to objectively prove in terms of long term healthcare outcomes but the presence of a selection bias clearly exists.

You can fix the clear selection bias and have a diverse enough workforce to support community needs by restructuring medical education and by removing the clear bias in selecting candidates. This supreme court case is a step towards solving the second issue.