Deprioritizing objective measures of merit in service of racial goals is extremely foolish,” Kingsbury told The College Fix in an interview.
To determine his findings, published Aug. 6 in City Journal, Kingsbury submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to all 93 U.S. public medical schools, seeking admissions data on race, undergraduate grades, Medical College Admission Test scores, and acceptance rates for students admitted in 2024.
Once the responses came in from 23 of the institutions, the data revealed statistically improbable patterns.
“Twenty-three medical schools have answered my request, including flagship institutions in states like Tennessee, Wisconsin, Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado. The data they provided make it clear that schools are at least skirting the Supreme Court’s decision, if not violating it outright,” Kingsbury wrote.
“…It’s reasonable to ask whether the 23 medical schools that responded to my request are indicative of all 93 public medical schools in America. The answer is likely yes.”
The disparities were especially stark at Eastern Virginia Medical School and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, where black applicants were about 10 times more likely to be accepted than white or Asian applicants with similar grades and test scores.