AfA) I see no evidence proving otherwise. Harvard has Zero 3.0gpa 28mcat AA med students I guarantee you that. I mainly post to give people who were in the same situation like I was when applying to medical school have some perspective about the process. But partaking in those discussions about AFA will cause you more grief than is needed lol. I go to school in the South, so the attitudes that you are speaking about are sadly commonplace. You learn to shake off the negativity and keep doing what you have to do in order to be successful in school. You don't have to prove anything to anyone except yourself. But the flip-side to this discussion: there are a lot of other students at med school now that have stats that are below (but near) the average who did not get in because of the supposed URM effect or money. Everyone leaves them out of the conversation when they start theorizing about why someone got in to X school. I don't know why it is so hard for folks to wrap their mind around the fact that the reason might be because of merit.