This hit way too close to home for me
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I feel this pretty bad too. I took a gamble in college and went into physics in hopes of going to graduate school for astronomy. I knew I'd have to make good grades, do undergrad research, get published, and make good scores on the GRE.
I graduated cum laude with BS in physics, almost killed myself doing undergrad research, got published, and did fine, but not amazing on the GRE. I applied to a total of 15 grad schools, and got denied by every single one of them. I have no fuckin' clue what I could have done differently, other than be literally perfect.
Now here I am, with no work experience to speak of because I went to school instead of working, and now I'm hopelessly overqualified for most work, but I won't get hired for any of it because I have no experience, and I'm hopelessly underqualified for anything that might make use of my now worthless degree.
Should have just been an engineer. I could have moved to Midland, and been making six figures by now.
Not be a privileged white male obviously
The details they could work out like that from my application is unknown. My name is pretty obviously male, but I don't think they would've been able to work out my race from my name as I've seen it used by both blacks and whites.
I obviously didn't fill out the race and gender forms. Or rather, I ticked the "I don't wish to disclose" box.
EDIT: Also forgot to mention, I spent over $1000 on application fees alone, applying to that many schools, all for the privilege of being told to fuck off.
Is be willing to wager that the only people that tick that box are white people that don't buy into the narrative, and you're marking yourself out to be binned immediately by choosing it.