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Article: News and Views: The Sharp Drop in Black Applications to Medical School
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 31, 2003
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The number of black applicants to medical school in the United States peaked in 1994 at 3,544. Since then, black applications to schools of medicine have declined steadily. In 2002 only 2,675 African-American college graduates applied to medical school in the United States. This figure is down by 24 percent from just six years ago. The number of medical school black applicants now stands at the same level that prevailed in 1980.
Blacks currently make up 7.9 percent of all medical school applicants.
Why the sharp decline? There appear to be a number of reasons. The first point is that in recent years medical school applicants have been dropping across the board for all ethnic groups ...