he tells me all the time people look at him like and I quote " An affirmative action baby". Even though he had high Lsat and gpa. It does get annoying at times, but what can you do? I am assuming like you said, many of the URMs with decent stats don't bother posting, on sdn or mdapplicants. I have decent stats and haven't really been seeing this profound AA boost from alot of the schools I applied to, although it could be my secondaries, I can't write for S*** I just learn to ignore it, and hopefully IF i get into medical school next year, will be around more open minded sensible people, who knows not all URMs are "affirmative action babies" Its so sad that things have to be this way. I look at it like this, the majority of AA that get into med school had stats near, equal or greater than the average. And there is a bulk of students with equal or greater stats that are rejected each year and they wonder "How TF did this happen". Now consider and this and this is honestly my view of the extent of AfA, consider that the AA applicants that are accepted under AfA only happened to be one of those applicants with equal or above average stats that would have been randomly rejectected But was not due to AfA. That in my opinion is the extent of AfA outside of HBCU (which is in essence not