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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED186460 AUTHOR: Williams, Albert P.; And Others
TITLE: Factors Affecting Medical School Admission Decisions
for Minority and Majority Applicants: A Comparative Study
of
Ten Schools.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 111 p.
AVAILABILITY: Publications Department, The Rand
Corporation,
1700 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90406 ($7.00).
ABSTRACT: Admissions procedures were examined at ten
selected medical schools, between 1973 and 1975, with
particular interest in comparing the procedures for
minority and majority medical school applicants. An
affirmative action policy was found to be operational in
each of the schools, which took special pains to evaluate
minority and disadvantaged students in a manner different
from the common procedures for majority applicants. These
policies significantly improved minority applicants'
chances of admission. Although the schools differed in the
weighting of students' credentials for admission, certain
characteristics were generally important--undergraduate
achievement in science courses, residence in the state, and
undergraduate enrollment in the parent university. Although
the science subtest scores on the Medical College Admission
Test (MCAT) were important for all applicants, the general
quantitative and verbal MCAT scores seemed to be scarcely
used in evaluating minority students. Further analysis,
using the new edition of the MCAT, is recommended.
(Author/GDC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; College-Entrance
Examinations; Females-; Grade-Point-Average; Higher
Education; Place-of-Residence; Predictive-Measurement;
School-Policy; Science-Tests; Success-;
Undergraduate-Study;
White-Students
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Admission-Criteria; *College-Admission;
*Enrollment-Trends; *Medical-Schools; *Minority-Groups;
*Predictor-Variables
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