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Presents a standardised admission ratio for measuring widening participation in British medical schools. How there is currently no system in place by which medical schools can measure their accountability to widen the acceptability of students for higher education; Reporting of students by ethnicity, socioeconomic class and gender; Reasons a quantitative index is needed; How data was collected for the study; Results which showed the difficulty for students from a lower social class to get into a medical school; Sex specific admission ratios which did not vary significantly by gender but did by socioeconomic factors; Massive inequalities in admissions by social class.