Charging that “there is ample evidence” of a continued quota system limiting the number of Jewish students in medical schools within New York State, the American Jewish Congress today criticized the inactivity of the State Department of Education in implementing the Quinn-Olliffe Act outlawing such discrimination and called upon the Commissioner of Education to conduct an inquiry into admissions practices of the nine medical schools in the state.
The request for an inquiry was based on the results of an A.J.C. sample survey of medical school admissions which revealed that Jewish applicants with apparently outstanding qualifications have only half the chance of being accepted by the medical schools as do non-Jewish applicants. The survey analyzed the applications for admissions to the nine medical schools in the state of 61 of the 72 winners of the New York State Medical Scholarships for 1949.
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