I haven't denied AA takes place. I've pointed out that lowering standards for black applicants is not AA as you've claimed.
If lower standards aren't AA, then what exactly is? Either affirmative action is taking place or it isn't. And if it is taking place, then that does explain at least some of the gap in the admissions.
So I'll ask you again, is it taking place or is it not?
The fact that you are now putting words in my mouth as a last resort demonstrates your lack of integrity and dishonesty. I guess it's easier to argue against points that have never been made than what people actually say, huh?
As a last resort? I'm not the one who has failed to make a coherent argument on the matter. You are. You have yet to actually state your position on whether or not affirmative action has a place in graduate school acceptance. Your position has been that discrepancies in MCAT and GPA are not due to racial preferance. So naturally my counterargument is that you shouldn't have a problem with eliminating race as a factor in college acceptance if you don't think that minorities are being held a different standard. Thats not putting words in your mouth. That is your argument, that they aren't being held to different standards.
To which I say fine, then there shouldn't be any problem with banning different standards, now should there?
I didn't suggest that "blacks have significantly more clinical experience." I said that it's possible that they have such experiences among other advantages that you aren't privy to since you didn't see their applications. That's you putting words in my mouth again - more dishonesty, less integrity.
More or less, you are saying they must have more of something else to make up for their lower of MCAT or GPA. I would like to know what that is.
Like I said, admissions offices have a cutoff for MCAT and GPA. Everyone who makes the cutoff is evaluated individually. You're assuming that race, not any of the multiple other factors, is what admissions officers are considering at the expense of everything else. You're assuming that blacks aren't outperforming whites (in the eyes of admissions officers) in other areas. That is your assumption. Nothing more.
Just because they have a cut off, doesn't mean they don't still continue to take MCAT and GPA into consideration. And regardless, you have yet to prove that blacks have more of something that make up for a lower GPA/MCAT. Until you actually prove that, this is a case of affirmative action.
And I'm saying, what the admissions officers want to see is diversity rather then actual academic performance. Diversity for diversity's sake is affirmative action. I'm not making an assumption. I'm showing you facts. When race is banned from being a factor and standards are forced to be colorblind, minority enrollment falls. THEREFORE it is not an assumption to say that race is a factor in enrollment. It is a fact.
Fact is, you're treating assumptions as facts and then whining because I'm calling you out for it. Another fact: you're getting pissy with me because I don't play red herring games. Cry harder.
Fact is, you still don't have a shred of evidence in your favor. I've produced sources, I've produced statistics. What have you produced? Ad hominem attacks and rhetorical arguments. If you're going to rely on wordplay and hedging rhetoric to undermine what I hoped would be a serious debate, then I'm going to call it for what it is.
Red herring games? Either you are childish or purposely trying to move the goal posts.
This entire discussion has been about minorities being held to a different standard. It is an important question to know whether or not you support separate standards for graduate admissions. If you do not support such separate standards, then I want to know why you continue to argue against a race neutral admissions policy for graduate students. Now stop acting like a child and state your position.