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.
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