Admission for Medical School:
1.    Individual is evaluated on application basis.
2.    Initially, admission was in the hands of the profession.  In the early 70s, physicians weren’t going to rural communities and minorities were not being selected.
a)    Government began to put money into application process.  Increase in the number of physicians but not necessarily a better distribution.
b)    Government decided there were too many physicians, so smaller classrooms, less admissions, etc.
c)    Look beyond grades at community activities, family ties.

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d.    Similar Hopwood diversity issues…..Bakke – race can be considered as an element of admission.