Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv

A 30-year friend of mine teaches in a medical school, and (I'm keeping it polite here) he disagrees with you. Emphatically.

According to him, extra credit can be assigned (which if you think about it, doesn't do anything to teach what was originally required to be learned) and the inferior students are just passed along. If they're not, and the percentage of minority graduates drops, the federal money dries up.

some of the affirmative action babies screw up so badly in the real world that they either lose their licenses or wind up in an area with less litigation (like public health) but they're still lousy doctors. And they do a lot of harm before they get caught.

Yes, other students can wind up in the same situation, but speaking from thirty years' experience, my friend says the percentage of AA students having problems is MUCH higher.

That's not racism. Unless you consider it racist that the NBA is around 70% black.