Medical School Admissions After the Supreme Court's 2023 Affirmative Action Ruling.

ABSTRACT: The 2023 Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v President and Fellows of Harvard College ruling to restrict race-based affirmative action is a landmark decision with potentially far-reaching consequences. To examine application, acceptance, and matriculation rates into doctor of medicine (MD)-granting programs before and after the 2023 SCOTUS decision. This retrospective cross-sectional study used deidentified data from the Association of American Medical Colleges on applicants and matriculants to US MD-granting medical schools 5 years before (2019-2023) and 1 year after (2024) the SCOTUS ruling. Application, acceptance, and matriculation into MD-granting programs. The study sample included 291 764 applicants to MD programs between 2019 and 2024 (1

SUBMITTER: Nguyen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12381671 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature