Original sentence: AMA created its Council on Medical Education in 1904 with the stated goal of raising standards in medical schools.Critic Dale Steinreich contends, though, that their actual goal was the shutting down more than half of all medical schools in the country (resulting in fewer doctors and thus higher fees).He also states that while there is nothing necessarily wrong with the seemingly high rejection rates found at most medical schools, that they were unreasonable given his perception the relatively high quality pool of applicants
Edited sentence: AMA created its Council on Medical Education in 1904 with the goal of shutting down more than half of all medical schools in existence (Steinreich).AMA would likely argue that there's nothing necessarily wrong with very high rejection rates.In terms of admissions, the peak year for applicants at U.Since the AMA's creation of the Council a century ago, the U.The last six years the University of Alabama (hardly a beacon of prestige in the medical discipline) has averaged about an 87% rejection rate (Steinreich).This is correct, except for the fact that these rates are being applied to pools of candidates who are cream-of-the-crop in quality and have put themselves through a very costly admissions process (Steinreich).population has increased in size by 284%, yet the number of medical schools has declined by 26%.schools was 1996, where roughly 64% of applications were rejected