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Between applicant's test scores and their subsequent performance as medical students. A study of 1,088 students in fourteen classes at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco concluded that there is virtually no relationship between these
scores and Medical School grades. Other studies, moreover, have concluded that high MCAT scores do not always accurately indicate which students will be most effective in clinical situaitons. Comparisons between student test scores and their subsequent
performance as physicians have yielded similar findings.

If test scores mean relatively little among otherwise qualified applicants,, then the deterring factors of acceptance must be based on the applicant's potential for fulfilling the goals of the school and society at large. Logically, minority applicants are probably better qualified to fulfill one of the most important of these goals: providing medical service to minority communities.

If minority admissions programs are characterized as giving