try and come up with the best way that we can meet our mission. that is by a process of holistic admissions. the cdc school, the social economic you something called the s e d, the socioeconomic advantage scale. that has evolved that overtime, we refer to distance traveled at this time. this is just a part of what we look at. but let me just show people so that they understand you have a chief something that other schools have not. so the u.s. medical school students in the country, this is according to the a.m.a., 10% are black, 12% are hispanic. in your school, 14% are black, 30% are hispanic. so your numbers are much higher than nationally the average. but let me ask you this have you determine that socioeconomic diversity is more important than racial diversity? it is certainly a very important factor to us in our
wide socioeconomic spectrum. since 1996, over 20 plus years ago, we have had a ban on affirmative action, and so we have done an iterative process by looking back and tweaking our process little by little to try and come up with the best way that we can meet our mission. that is by a process of holistic admissions. the sed scale, the social economic you something called the s e d, the socioeconomic advantage scale. that has evolved that overtime, we refer to distance traveled at this time. this is just a part of what we look at. but let me just show people so that they understand you have a chief something that other schools have not. so the u.s. medical school students in the country, this is according to the a. m. a., 10% are black, 12% are