Does race really matter in grad school apps?

belevitt
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:54:11 +0000

I am sure that nobody wants to talk about this, but we all know the PI who doesn’t want Chinese/Indian/Whatever ethnicity in his lab because he has generalized personality characteristics to a whole group of people eg. “Not taking on a Chinese student because they can’t communicate well” This is blatant racism but it does exist. I answered that I prefer not to answer when that question on the app came up.