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One of the top medical schools in the world, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine, has reportedly dropped in the rankings, and some faculty members are pointing to admissions decisions that “prioritize diversity over merit” as a likely cause.
In 2021, Associate Dean for Admissions Jennifer Lucero allegedly became angry when an official with the admissions committee questioned whether one black student, whose grades and test scores were far below the school’s average, was a good fit for the school, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday.
“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero reportedly said before claiming that the applicant’s scores should not matter and the school needed such people.
California’s public schools are not allowed, per state law, to consider a person’s race during the admissions process. Therefore, Lucero’s reaction caused some of the admissions officers to feel uncomfortable, one of them calling it “troubling.”
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Students at one of the top medical schools in the country are failing basic medical competency tests – and whistleblowers at the school are blaming affirmative action policies.
Some faculty members shared emails and other information with The Washington Free Beacon, which revealed that the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) was admitting students based on race over merit, a practice that has been illegal in California since 1996. The outlet based its report on “written correspondence between UCLA officials, internal data on student performance, and interviews with eight professors at the medical school—six of whom have worked with or under Lucero on medical student and residency admissions.”
The result of the alleged race-based admissions policies has led to a marked increase in the number of students failing basic standardized tests.
“I have students on their rotation who don’t know anything,” a member of the admissions committee told the Free Beacon. “People get in and they struggle.”
Those who spoke to the Free Beacon placed the blame largely on Jennifer Lucero, who took over as the dean of admissions in 2020. In one example of the school allowing someone in based on race and not merit, Lucero reportedly became angry with another admissions officer who questioned whether the school should let in a black applicant whose grades and test scores were far below the school’s average.
“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero reportedly asked, adding that “we need people like this in the medical school.”
The outburst concerned other admissions officials, prompting one to reach out to other committee members and to wonder “if this applicant had been [a] white male, or [an] Asian female for that matter, [whether] we would have had that much discussion.”
The same question had been raised since Lucero began her role as head of the medical school’s admissions in 2020. Since then, the school has dropped from 6th to 18th place in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for medical research, and as many as 50% of students are failing basic standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Large percentages are also failing basic tests in neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, and surgery as well. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++Half of trainee doctors at UCLA's prestigious medical school 'are failing basic tests after dean who's anti-white ignored affirmative action ban and terrorized staff with DEI rules'+++++
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