ubc have quotas for how many asians they can accept?

[Guest Jazz]

Can someone clarify this for me. I had a conversation with a social worker today, when I told him I applied for med, he said the chances are the smallest for Asian males, and best for white females because UBC sets quotas for how many students of each race/sex they'll accept. It's suppose to be some rule within the department that's not made public.

[Guest Ian Wong]

Not true. This is one of those urban myths that gets perpetuated by disgruntled applicants. Unfortunately, when you get 800 well-qualified applicants, and only accept 128 of them, you are going to piss a lot of those people off.

 

Ian

UBC, Med 4

[Guest kellyl20]

so how many asians are there in the class of 128 then for each year? Does anyone know what the numbers are?

[Guest Ian Wong]

There's at least 30 Asians in my class of 120. I don't know about any of the other classes, but there's a lot of us folks running around the campuses.

 

Ian

UBC, Med 4

[Guest shrimp]

Ian,

 

Your website is so great!

 

You said there are at least 30 Asians in your class...so it's like 25%. But when you look around the UBC campus or SFU, there are obviously more than 25% who are Asians. But I guess the proportion of Asians in the whole campus can't predict how many Asians can get into medical school. Last week in Vancouver Sun, a report said that now in Greater Vancouver, 37% identified themselves as "visible minority" groups! In Vancouver, 3 in 10 are Chinese and in Richmond, 4 in 10 are Chinese.