Vijay Chokal-Ingam's story pretty much told me everything I need to know about privilege within the university system.
The data suggested that an Indian-American with my grades (3.1 GPA) and test scores (31 MCAT) was unlikely to gain admission to medical school, but an African-American with the same grades and test scores had a high probability of admission. While I wasn’t able to pin down the exact number, I reasonably calculated that African-American or Hispanic applicants had as much as a 30 to 40 percent better chance of acceptance than I.
So he applied twice, once as himself and once as Jojo the blackman. Same resume except the race. He got waitlisted while Jojo was accepted.
Vijay Chokal-Ingam's story pretty much told me everything I need to know about privilege within the university system.
So he applied twice, once as himself and once as Jojo the blackman. Same resume except the race. He got waitlisted while Jojo was accepted.
Meanwhile, they try to tell us that applicants are discriminated against based on their black-sounding names.