Discrimination Regarding Asian Americans in MedicalSchool Admissions: The Management of Human Rights Policy Issue

Abstract

Introduction Critics have levelled charges of bias, claiming that admission policies have been aimed specifically at slowing down the influx of Asian Americans into medical schools and have therefore discriminated against them. They point to Asian American admission rates (the number of Asian Americans offered admission divided by the number of Asian American applicants) that have been lower than those of Caucasians, despite Asian American performances as measured by standardised test scores and college grade point averages that appears to be equal to and at times superior to that of Caucasians. A downward turn in Asian American admission rates at some institutions has raised the additional concern that admission officers have put informal numerical limits on the number of Asian Americans they admit. However, most admissions officers deny such.

Citation

Yeh, E. and Munchus, G. (1993), "Discrimination Regarding Asian Americans in MedicalSchool Admissions: The Management of Human Rights Policy Issue", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010605