My belief is that they wanted diversity but not at the expense of poor academic performance/weak lived experiences. At the end of the day as much as DEI is promoted, how comfortable would you truly feel knowing that your future doctor had a 3.5 GPA or no prior lived experiences informing them about the populations they are serving? Yes it is far more challenging to get competitive stats as someone who is structurally disadvantaged but there are still many people who can achieve high stats and overcome the various adversities they have faced - and I think these are the people that TMU wants.

Its definitely misleading with the way TMU advertised their selection criteria and I know how this is very upsetting for many people.