On attaining Dworkinian Equality of Opportunity in Medschool selection: Roemer’s model for quantifying inequality

Abstract

[""In the Netherlands, medschool selection was previously regulated via a lottery. Since the introduction of ‘active’ decentralised selection, a decreased diversity is seen amongst medstudents. Recently, the Dutch house of representatives (re-)allowed lottery to be part of the selection process to increase equality of opportunity (EOpp). This thesis argues that admittance to medschool should be regulated by equality of opportunity; in order to do so, contextualised admission based on types should take place, ranking students on their percentile ‘effort’ instead of on their selection score. It does so by using Ronald Dworkin's egalitarianism to define EOpp and applies John Roemer's model to differentiate between someone's native ability and the development thereof that happens due to their brute luck circumstances in a quantifiable manner.""]