Discrimination in Medical Colleges

Anti-Semitism.

"Leo," a bright and personable young man, dreamed of becoming a physician. After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in New York City, he took a premed course at Ohio University. He had an excellent scholastic record and a distinguished athletic history when he filed his first application for admission to medical school. With his record he had no doubts about being accepted. But his application was turned down. After receiving rejections from eighty-seven other schools, he took an M.A. at Yale with top honors. One of his professors made a personal effort to enroll him in a medical school, but without success. Leo was excluded because he was Jewish.

Quota Systems.

Medical schools in the 1940s were badly overcrowded, and prejudice and discrimination against certain groups were both subtle and overt factors in admission decisions. For every vacant place in the freshman class, seven or eight...

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