Equity for "DREAMers" in Medical School Admissions.

Where We Are and How We Got Here In the autumn of 2012, the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in the nation to amend its admissions policy to welcome applications from “DREAMers”—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, i.e., prior to the age of 16, and have been raised and educated in the United States for more than five years—who have “DACA” (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) status [1]. DREAMers are so called for the oft-introduced, but never passed into law, federal DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors) Act. In many cases, DREAMers came to the United States as very young children and may have little direct experience with the countries in which they were born.