Students should be admitted based on their talents and not because of their skin color. Allen Lee, junior Junior Daniela Fontecilla feels equally divided about the issue. It is important to get a diverse population of students, but I don't know if affirmative action is that fair. The majority of US medical schools follow the policy decreed by the AAMC by choice, including the Harvard Medical School, where a ceremony recently took place to celebrate three decades of affirmative action. As reported by the Harvard University Gazette, medical student Donnella Green observed that, despite the progress made, she has still experienced isolation because of her minority status.
Barriers still exist.
Without affirmative action, we will lose the gains we have made. While Tufts and Harvard are classified as urban universities, even at smaller, more rural colleges the issues behind affirmative action still exist, and emerge differently due to the size and scope of their environments. Alexandra Falzon, a junior at Mount Holyoke College, finds that the process involves gender issues as well. She believes that admissions officers should begin to take the qualifications of the applicants into account. Women at my school are for the idea of affirmative action because it definitely helps women have a place in the work force.