You know, I wonder about something. So, elite universities are well known for favoring children of alumni for admission. If your parents went to Harvard, Stanford, Penn, or Columbia — to highlight just a few highly regarded universities — you are much more likely to be admitted than your peers. There's a formal name for this: legacy admission or even legacy preference.

For all the people dissing DEI and other inclusion efforts, I wonder why you never hear them dismissing the qualifications of all the legacy students who get admitted because of mommy and daddy.

Most of those students are white, of course. So I guess they're just presumed to be highly qualified because they're white with successful parents? How does that work?

I don't want to take away from your main point, which is it anybody who makes it all the way through medical training is highly qualified, however they got into university.

It's just instructive to note the racist double standard!