Medical schools hold the weighty responsibility of deciding who can become a doctor. So one would hope that they would approach this task with the goal of selecting those persons who have the greatest potential to become good doctors. Yet medical schools have long been riddled with leftist admissions officers who prioritize their racial preferences over improving the health care system — and saving people’s lives.

There has been some limited movement away from racist admissions decision-making since the Supreme Court ruled two years ago that “affirmative action” is an illegal violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Alas, many medical schools are dodging the law in pursuit of their racist agendas.

One of the worst offenders — and shockingly so — is the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. They are not even trying to hide the extent to which they are racially discriminating. (RELATED: Creative Destruction Comes to Universities)

We learned the sordid extent of this last week when the organization Do No Harm released data it had gathered from 23 medical schools through Freedom of Information Act requests.

At the University of Wisconsin medical school, black applicants are six times more likely to be admitted than Asian applicants. When black and Asian students test at the same percentile in the upper-middle range of MCAT scores, this increases to a twelvefold differential.

This means applicants of different races have entirely separate sets of admissions standards at Wisconsin. The average accepted black student had an MCAT score in the 62nd percentile, while the average white student was in the 86th percentile and the average Asian student was in the 87th percentile. Astoundingly, the average MCAT score for white and Asian applicants who were rejected was higher than the MCAT score for black candidates who were accepted. (RELATED: Higher Education’s 7 Deadly Sins)

MCAT scores are very effective at predicting medical school success. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the scores “strongly predict” students’ success in theoretical medical school courses such as biochemistry and molecular biology as well as students’ achievements during clinical rotations. And yet the University of Wisconsin has judged race to be more important than readiness for these formative experiences that prepare future doctors to save people’s lives.

The University of Wisconsin has no shame and publicly celebrates the racial makeup of its class as proof of its supposed virtue. It prominently announces on its medical school admissions website that 28 percent of its students are “underrepresented in medicine.” It says on its website that it wants its graduate medical education programs, including its MD program, to “reflect the communities served.” Among the school of medicine’s priorities for “Eliminating Health Disparities” are “Providing robust gender services to help transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming patients access and obtain high-quality gender-affirming medical care” and “Recruiting underrepresented, diverse residents and fellows.” Further, it emphatically declares, “Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are top priorities.” (RELATED: Higher Education’s 7 Deadly Sins)

The University of Wisconsin’s medical school is particularly bad, but it is not alone. Twenty-two out of the 23 schools that responded to Do No Harm reported that admitted black applicants had lower MCAT scores than white and Asian students.

However, some schools were less likely to make decisions based on race. At the Medical College of Georgia, among other medical schools, “group acceptance rates correlate positively with average group applicant performance,” according to Do No Harm. That means that Asian applicants, who generally had higher scores, were more likely to be admitted than white and black students, who presented with lower scores.

The University of Wisconsin is playing with people’s lives by prioritizing skin color over test scores. But it is also testing trouble with lawsuits. Last week, America First Legal called for the Department of Justice to investigate the admissions practices of Johns Hopkins University’s medical school. America First Legal alleges discrimination in Johns Hopkins’ admissions decisions as well as “scholarships, faculty hiring, curricula, residency programs, and federal research grants.”

America First Legal said that Johns Hopkins’ alleged effort to “evade” Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, in which the Supreme Court ruled against racial preferences in admissions decisions, is “calculated.” (RELATED: Affirmative Action Ruling May Save American Colleges)

“As one of the nation’s premier medical institutions and the largest recipient of federal funding among American universities, Johns Hopkins bears a heightened responsibility to uphold fairness and merit,” said America First Legal. “Instead, it has entrenched a DEI regime through its School of Medicine that infuses preferences based on race, color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, and other impermissible, immutable characteristics into every facet of medical education.”

It is terrible that Wisconsin’s medical school is choosing to artificially handicap Asian applicants, evidently determining that enrolling too many of them would be unpalatable. But it is also quite unfortunate that Wisconsin is smearing every single black doctor it graduates as unqualified, even though the statistical reality is that many of them achieved scores that would have gained them admittance had their race not advantaged them.

Yet Wisconsin has chosen to reinforce this perception through its ever-present racial discrimination. It deserves to be next on the chopping block. And it very well could be.

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