A person protests outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
"In practice, ‘holistic’ admissions often represent a rebranding or workaround of affirmative action," it says.
The study says that though the case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, prohibits the use of race as a factor in college admissions, "many medical schools appear set to devise workarounds."
The study cites leading medical organizations that expressed dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s decision and their intent, in Do No Harm’s view, to "circumvent it."
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), for example, released a statement on the ruling saying, "The AAMC believes that a diverse and inclusive biomedical research workforce with individuals from historically excluded and underrepresented groups in biomedical research is critical to gathering the range of perspectives needed to identify and solve the complex scientific problems of today and tomorrow."
"We will work together to adapt following today’s court decision without compromising these goals," the group said.
"Their responsibility is to the patients, to create the most qualified workforce that they can possibly create," Dr. Goldfarb said. (iStock )
"Medical schools and other institutions of higher education should consider a person’s race and ethnicity, alongside other factors that are often considered like socioeconomic status and geographic location, as part of evaluating applicants to counter both past and current discrimination," Atiq said.
The roughly 15-page study claims that when affirmative action was legal, universities could "engage in explicit racial preference without legal consequence," and that Asian applicants were negatively affected.
"Even though MCAT scores and GPA were integral to the admissions process, the penalties and bonuses assigned to members of racial groups became so extreme that Black applicants with average MCAT scores and GPAs were four times as likely to be admitted to medical school as academically equivalent Asian applicants," the study says, noting that Black students accepted to medical school have academic qualifications that mirror Asian applicants rejected from medical school.
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In an interview with Fox News Digital, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm, said schools appear intent on finding "ways around" the decision. "They feel that diversity is such an important value in health care that they need to ignore the Supreme Court and go their own way."
"There’s really no justification of this," he said. "Their responsibility is to the patients, to create the most qualified workforce that they can possibly create."
Goldfarb said schools’ decisions could "come back to haunt them" and they could "end up getting sued."
The AAMC and American College of Physicians did not immediately respond to Fox News Digtial's requests for comment.
Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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