Forcing Diversity When Lives Are on the Line

Our physicians should be the best of the best.

It’s heartening to see leaders of a prominent medical school acknowledge reality (“Med Schools Are Wrong on Rankings” by Fritz François and Gbenga Ogedegbe, op-ed, Feb. 16). The reason many medical schools have decided to abandon the U.S. News and World Report rankings is their inability to maintain excellence while pursuing politicized demands for racial diversity in their student bodies.