Discrimination practiced by medical and dental schools through use of quota systems is disconraging students belonging to minority groups from pursuing those professions, according to a survey by the sociolegy department of City College here.
Based on questions submitted to 295 members of the senior class, the survey showed that 18.8 percent of those who had changed their vocational choice since entering college had done so because they anticipated discrimination by graduate schools. Of all the students who planned to enter professions, only 10,6 selected medicine or dentistry, because of the existence of bias.
Even those who still desire to enter medicine or dentistry indicated that they anticipated difficulty in securing admission to graduate schools, but were planring to “buck” the system in the hope that they might be admitted by some school, the report shows.
Ninety-seven peroent of the class reconmended the establishment of a bias-free state university as the only solution to the problem of professional discrimination.
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