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by Jensson 914 days ago
It is the opposite case here, black students in medical school are more likely from higher income families than the Asian students. So they are accepting people with more resources and lower scores. This is the problem with racial affirmative action, it takes resources from worse off kids and give them to well off kids, if it was based on family resources like in Kenya people wouldn't object as much.

First % is from upper income families, second is from lower, Asian has better representation from lower income families than any other racial group among med students.

> Asian: RI, 2.3 [21.7% vs 9.5%];

> Black: RI, 5.3 [9.1% vs 1.7%];

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...