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Discrimination in Medical School Admissions

Medical College Admissions Test Scores

	Males	Females	Difference
Average Scores of Test Takers
Physical Science	50 Percentile	38 Percentile	31.6%
Biology	53 Percentile	43 Percentile	23.3%
Average Scores of Matriculants
Biology, 1989	9.76	9.25	5.5%
Biology, 1990	9.8	9.3	5.4%
Chemistry	75-85	63-74	16%

In order for women to be admitted to California medical schools, affirmative action required that more highly qualified men be denied admission, considerably lowering the overall average skills of the medical profession. These scores suggest that this lowering of skills is in the range of more than 20%. The actual distribution of MCAT scores is most likely similar to the distribution of GRE Physics Scores for Applicants to the University of Texas, Austin:

GRE Score	Men	Women	% of Applicants	% Women
>1000	4	0	1%	0%
>900	29	0	7.4%	0%
>850	51	0	12.9%	0%
>800	77	1	19.5%	0.25%
>750	109	2	27.7%	0.5%
>700	169	3	42.9%	0.8%
>650	224	10	56.8%	2.5%

Assume that the distribution of MCAT scores is equivalent to the distribution for GRE Physics Scores. If a medical school were required to accept the top 10% of the applicants, then it would accept no women. If it were required to accept the top 40% of applicants, it would accept 169 men and only 3 women. If it accepted the top 50% of all applicants, the only way it could accept more than 1% women would be to illegally discriminate against more qualified men.

To add insult to injury, the MCAT test doesn't even correlate with tests which measure critical thinking skills, something that is MANDATORY for doctors, yet most other standardized tests do correlate, very well. The result is that more than 65% of all college admissions are women today, and this is happening at the expense of more qualified men. The taxpayer, the education system, the economy, and industry all suffer significantly as a consequence.

Modified Tuesday, November 02, 2010