UCLA Whistleblower Claims Half Of Medical Students Fail Basic Medical Competence Test
Up to half of University of California Los Angeles’ (UCLA) medical students fail basic tests of medical competence, according to a whistleblower from inside the university.
A whistleblower, who seemingly worked in admissions at UCLA, told the Washington Free Beacon that affirmative action is to blame for a record number of failed medical competencies inside the university. Affirmative action as a practice in university is illegal in the state of California.
According to the whistleblower, in November of 2021, a black applicant with grades and test scores far below UCLA’s average applied for the school. Several admissions officers wanted to deny the applicant as the applicant’s test scores did not reach UCLA’s standards.
Jennifer Lucero, one of the deans of admissions in the medical school, reportedly went into a rage fit. Lucero argued that the candidate’s scores shouldn’t matter because “African-American women are dying at a higher rate than anyone else.” Therefore, black women applicants should be admitted.
Lucero, a white woman, became UCLA’s Associate Dean of Admissions and Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in 2020.
Following Lucero’s outburst, several admissions officers communicated about whether applicants of different races would receive special consideration as the aforementioned black applicant did.
“I wondered,” one official pondered, “if this applicant had been [a] white male, or [an] Asian female for the matter, [whether] we would have had that much discussion.”
One whistleblower told the Free Beacon that race-based admissions have turned UCLA into a “failed medical school.”
“We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it,” the whistleblower said.
UCLA medical school only accepts 173 students, on average, of the 14,000 students who apply each year. The university’s medical school has a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent in the 2023 admissions cycle.
