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Topic	Wow, Asians really do get hit hard by affirmative action
Coffeebeanz 06/18/18 9:13:16 AM #51:	Omega Hunter posted... MacadamianNut3 posted... It's pretty amazing that someone decided to mention acceptance rates and not even something as basic as the number of applicants per group, among other things. If I pulled that kind of extremely lazy statistics shit in any paper I submitted for conferences or even a workshop (where you pretty much can just vomit out text about what you plan on doing in the near future and brainstorm with others), I would get my ass torn to shreds in reviews. You'd also think someone who took the MCAT would have better critical thinking skills and look up supplemental information but its Coffeebeanz, so I'm gonna guess that data was probably included on whatever website she originally found it on but she left it out and then hosted it on imgtc to get rid of the url Because we all need attention on CE sometimes This. Let's compare an applicant pool of 100 asians to 7 blacks. None of that would even matter if there were no quotas. The average acceptance MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race. I know you think you're clever about how statistics work, but you really aren't. Asians would only be overrepresented because they apply in higher numbers, which isn't entirely unreasonable. If there were no racial makeup quotas, everyone would have the same likelihood of being accepted if they had equal test scores and GPAs. Yes, the acceptance rates of each race would be different because the number of applicants would be different. But the average accepted MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race. Where you get into trouble is if no, or relatively few, applicants of a certain race meet or exceed the average acceptance scores. But I'll let you decide what should be done about that. --- Physician [Internal Medicine] <cite>Coffeebeanz posted [p:903490265] in Wow, Asian... [t:76723783]...</cite> <quote><cite>Omega Hunter posted...</cite> <quote><cite>MacadamianNut3 posted...</cite> <quote>It's pretty amazing that someone decided to mention acceptance rates and not even something as basic as the number of applicants per group, among other things. If I pulled that kind of extremely lazy statistics shit in any paper I submitted for conferences or even a workshop (where you pretty much can just vomit out text about what you plan on doing in the near future and brainstorm with others), I would get my ass torn to shreds in reviews. You'd also think someone who took the MCAT would have better critical thinking skills and look up supplemental information but its Coffeebeanz, so I'm gonna guess that data was probably included on whatever website she originally found it on but she left it out and then hosted it on imgtc to get rid of the url Because we all need attention on CE sometimes</quote> This. Let's compare an applicant pool of 100 asians to 7 blacks.</quote> None of that would even matter if there were no quotas. The average acceptance MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race. I know you think you're clever about how statistics work, but you really aren't. Asians would only be overrepresented because they apply in higher numbers, which isn't entirely unreasonable. If there were no racial makeup quotas, everyone would have the same likelihood of being accepted if they had equal test scores and GPAs. Yes, the acceptance rates of each race would be different because the number of applicants would be different. But the average accepted MCAT and GPA would be the same regardless of race. Where you get into trouble is if no, or relatively few, applicants of a certain race meet or exceed the average acceptance scores. But I'll let you decide what should be done about that. --- Physician [Internal Medicine]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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