> Medical schools are tweaking admission protocols, looking beyond an A in orgo for future doctors who are less Spock and more Kirk. > I asked two medical school deans — Dr. Robert Witzburg at Boston University and Dr. Lee Goldman at Columbia University — about admission philosophies. Both are proponents of holistic review, the newish idea that medical schools look beyond grades and test scores to evaluate the whole applicant

You should always read this as code for "to reduce the number of Asian students admitted".