Code Red: Downplaying Academic Excellence in Med School Admissions | RealClearPolitics

Code Red: Downplaying Academic Excellence in Med School Admissions | RealClearPolitics - By Charles Lipson

"America’s top medical schools, worried they have too few minority students, are doing something about it. 

They are lowering academic standards for admission and trying to hide the evidence.

Columbia, Harvard, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Mount Sinai, and the University of Pennsylvania have already done so. 

The list already tops forty, and more are sure to follow.
Of course, the universities won’t admit what they are doing – and certainly not why. 

All they will say is that their new standards add “equity” and “lived experience.”...