HSBSE also offers tutoring for the MCAT examination for students applying to medical school.
A Select Group
"At the Biological Labs, the walls have only portraits of white men," McClelland says. "That can be discouraging."
He says many black students are instead drawn to economics as a major because members of the black community, especially, are encouraged to make money and increase their "prestige."
He says prestige is also a factor that encourages blacks who do concentrate in the sciences to go into medicine rather than pursue graduate degrees or other careers--Law's graduate statistics seem to confirm this notion.
Davis also says that, although the proportion of non-Asian minority chemistry concentrators is already low, the proportions among graduate students in chemistry is even lower.
Davis says "minorities interested in science seem to gravitate toward medicine."
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