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re: LSU NOLA Med School Entrance Requirements
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:32 pm to IAHTiger
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:32 pm to IAHTiger
Since all these DEI type programs started back in the 60`s many lives were altered and success was dampened for all who were rejected due to not being the right color.
How was this ever legal or fair?
How was this ever legal or fair?
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:39 pm to PaulDrake
DEI was the closeted Affirmative Rights tranny. Once the Woke Left had their Toadies in Civil Service and a stiff in the White House, DEI came out like a raving Queen .
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:46 pm to IAHTiger
Sue them and defund them.
It's well past time to stomp out the Pedocrat's racism.
It's well past time to stomp out the Pedocrat's racism.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:49 pm to PaulDrake
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How was this ever legal or fair?
According to LBJ, it was designed to stop qualified minority candidates from getting passed over for jobs.
Maybe it had noble intentions in the 60s, but it’s obviously a joke today. Time to end it.
This post was edited on 3/7/25 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:57 pm to IAHTiger
I had to switch careers about 15 years ago after I got a similar MCAT score but couldn’t get into a single US med school (got into schools in the Caribbean). My interview was apparently what did me in since I mentioned wanting the status of being a doctor, funds for a nice lifestyle, and the ability to decide if people live or die.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:58 pm to Robin Masters
Fa reels
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:44 pm to Jake88
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The volunteerism has gotten absurd. People are no longer doing it because they care, they're doing it to get into these grad schools, Medical, Dental, Law, etc
You paint with a very broad brush. My son had two open heart surgeries at 17 years old because of a congenital heart defect. His volunteering has all been at camps for kids with congenital heart defects. That’s his passion, and for obvious reasons. That’s why he is determined to serve this patient population as a congenital heart surgeon. He is well on his way even though he won’t finish training and make a proper doctor salary until he is over 35 years old.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:48 pm to theunknownknight
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Is more of a formality to make sure your aren’t a complete idiot or psycho. If
It used to me. More and more it seems as if they aren't screening to let some of these 'tards in.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:07 pm to auwaterfowler
I'm not making an aspersion towards your son. I was making a general statement based on what I've heard in cases.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:10 pm to the808bass
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If you want to pretend that chicks and POC aren’t getting preferential treatment in med school admission, you are welcome to that delusion.
Good luck finding a white male doctor at MD Anderson, haven’t seen one in four months.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:32 pm to IAHTiger
Did your nephew get rejection letter recently? My son has similar mcat and high gpa. He had interview with LSU med N.O. back in October and they still have not told him anything one way or the other.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:51 pm to LSUtoBOOT
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Good luck finding a white male doctor at MD Anderson, haven’t seen one in four months.
They pay over 30% less than the national average.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:53 pm to IAHTiger
Non binary and you are in....
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:54 pm to IAHTiger
You realize that MCAT score is only one factor right? There are many other things they consider including GPA, research, volunteering, leadership, and more.
But of course, your first accusation is it’s because of his race. :rollseyes:
But of course, your first accusation is it’s because of his race. :rollseyes:
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:56 pm to Cryptococcus
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During the interview, I was never once asked why I wanted to be a physician. Instead, I was asked what “culture competency meant to me” and “how I have actively tried to reduce systemic racism” and other things of that nature.
Repeated for emphasis.
It’s fricking upside down clown world.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 8:06 pm to IAHTiger
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4.25 GPA at LSU in Biochemistry. All A+... Every class thru last Fall.
This may sound impressive but college is ridiculously easy now compared to previous years and especially in many of the science majors because they don’t take critical thought with how they are taught. Trust me on this as I would know.
Also; being a biochem major is nothing special and doesn’t stand out. Medical schools want kids from different disciplines and he clearly showed he was doing the carbon copy pre-med with that major.
Further, kid may have just been an arse in his interview thinking there was no way he doesn’t get accepted.
It was many years ago and I remember a kid with a perfect GPA in engineering, strong MCAT score, something like 3000 hours of volunteer work and leadership out of his ears and he didn’t get into LSUMC initially because, wait for it, he wasn’t the right type of white. Too many Indian students were taken in previous years upsetting whitey since they count as white in Louisiana, multiple Indian and Middle Eastern kids got screwed that year.
It happens all the time both ways.
Further, did he do any kind of research as an undergrad? If so, how much? One semester of research won’t cut it anymore.
Lots of reasons a person with high GPA and High MCAT wouldn’t get in.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 8:10 pm to Geauxgurt
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It happens all the time both ways.
No. It does not happen “all the time both ways.” Any AA with those stats would be accepted no matter what they said in the interview. I know it. You know it. Only one of us is honest enough to say it.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 8:15 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:#1 Biochem is not "ridiculously easy."
Also; being a biochem major is nothing special and doesn’t stand out.
#2 A >4.0 is not "ridiculously easy" in any curriculum, much less biochem.
#3 A 95% MCAT score is not ridiculously easy.
quote:Correct. So why the other BS responses?
Lots of reasons a person with high GPA and High MCAT wouldn’t get in.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 8:21 pm to rltiger
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Plays a small part, but you still need students to pass their courses and USMLE Steps. Fail courses, you repeat the class, repeat the year, or take leave of absence. As for the steps, there are 3, you can take the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) up to four times per Step exam. This includes incomplete attempts. If you fail a USMLE step four times, you are ineligible to apply for any further Steps in the USMLE. You also have 7 years to complete the 3 steps. You will never be a Dr. if you cant do the above. Medical schools do not want or need students that will fail out, it looks very bad to the alumni and donors. All this DEI shite isn’t as deep as you think it is.
Good point. So they’re not making any changes to the step exams. Right?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 8:23 pm to Geauxgurt
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Maybe it had an effect, but what is more likely is that the kid bombed his interview or has a glaring hole in his application.
It’s not more likely and you’re carefully avoiding the percentage chance of an African American getting accepted with those same stats. It’s going to be somewhere between 100% and 100%.
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And I am sure if they let all the more qualified Asian kids in over your super whitey kids that aren’t as good, you bitch and moan too, right?
Naw. I like the smartest people who want to be doctors becoming doctors. I don’t care what their ethnicity is.
This post was edited on 3/7/25 at 8:24 pm
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