re: LSU NOLA Med School Entrance Requirements

He’s a really nice kid, earnest kid. It wasn’t a traditional medical school. It was UMKC’s 6 year program.

They do the MMI interview. He had a 4.0 GPA, 35 on the ACT. He was starting on the football team until his junior year. He’s a concert pianist. He had multiple shadows and volunteering on his resume. He went to a summer camp for wannabe doctors at the University of Missouri. He has above average social emotional quotient and speaks very well. He’s a team player and it comes across within 5 minutes of talking to him. He’s a Missouri resident. But he’s Baptist and he’s unapologetic.

So when they asked him how he would treat a person who identified as a gender other than their birth gender (or however they phrased it), he responded that he would be treating the underlying medical problem based upon the information available to him. They started pressing him asking him to say the magic words of something along the lines of “treating them while respecting their gender identity.”

I know that semi-sane progressives want to pretend that wokeism isn’t really affecting decisions like this. But they are.

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lol. Motte/bailey is the favorite refuge of the woke.

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Then 808 was right, you didn't understand the graph.

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Least surprising news ever.

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It was UMKC’s 6 year program.

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Okay.
Just FYI, 6yr program admissions are a different ballgame.

It's the route I went FWIW. Without knowing specifics, it's hard to answer with specifics. But in general, those programs are ridiculously competitive. Translation: They can make regular med school admissions look like a cakewalk. IIRC, we had several thousand applicants for 8 slots.

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wtf?

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Logical fallacies are apparently partisan now...somehow.

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Need” isn’t the right word. They are getting it, still, when it comes to med school admission.

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Are you sure? They make up 55% of the accepted med school applicants with men obviously at 45%. I doubt they are getting special treatment with those numbers. The country has a bit of a crisis of men bailing out on higher education.

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your conspiracy theory

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The data is clear, proggie.

He is the champion of losing an argument and then pulling the " you don't even understand the discussion" and then reverting to ad homs.

Yep, one of his "everyone look away. A good argument seems to have been made" tells.

I’m aware. That’s where my kid went. So when I saw his stats and knew him, I thought he was a shoo-in. Being a Missouri resident changes the game as far as admissions luck at UMKC (even though it’s still very competitive). So when he told me he wasn’t accepted, I couldn’t figure out why. So we started discussing the interview. The gender question was the only thing that stood out, IMO.

Could it have been 50 other things? Sure. But if he’d been Hispanic, AA or a female with the same rough resume, he would have sailed in.

He’s a driven kid who will be successful. So he just went another direction and took it as a sign and not a slight. He figured he didn’t want to be somewhere where he had to lie to get in.