Have you felt or came across discrimination in the university-admissions process?

I know America has pretty big issue with affirmative action and quotas regarding how many % of each minority gets admitted to each uni or even a job (just read Michael Wang's "Students For Fair Admission v.s. Harvard" story).

However, I was wondering if any student from UK felt or had issues in the past regarding being discriminated in your college-admission process or feeling indiscriminated (having a better chance of getting into uni or getting a job) simply for being a minority?

If any of you has a story regarding this topic and don't want to post anything in the comments - please message me in private, I would love to hear you out.

And we dont have 'college' admissions here.
We have University admissions.

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How would someone involved in the admissions process in the UK identify if an applicant was a member of any minority group?

How would someone involved in the admissions process in the UK identify if an applicant was a member of any minority group?

Name.

Sorry if I am misunderstanding your question, but I guess you are talking about name? If I am, please do rephrase the question (:

A name doesn't tell me if someone has a disability or serious health condition, or whether they are transgender, non-binary or gender fluid. I can't make an assumption about someone's religion based on their name and even if I could, what am I supposed to say when my work is audited? "Sorry, yeah that person did meet our offer criteria in full but I just decided not to bother."

In the UK, university offers are typically determined by criteria set before the application cycle begins. Most applications probably never even see an academic member of staff and there are very few courses that interview.

My concern is that your question implies that there is some positive or negative bias in the process towards minorities, (or that people might feel that way), but I typically find most people don't know what info is available to admissions staff, or how offer decisions are made.

I would be interested in hearing more about the admissions process in the US, and how this bias is applied.

Is there a disability support service?

Just google 'affirmative action' or if you want direct articles about it add 'new yorker' to that search and you will find at least three articles on Asian-American discrimination when it came to their applications just based purely on their ethnicity. That case now is called "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard". I decided to do this thread because I was curious if there are similar cases to this in UK. And talking about admissions I believe even in UK there must be some quotas how many % of minorities have to get into each workplace/university - at least that's the case in America. You will be surprised to find people on Internet/forums claiming to lie about being gay, bi or (belonging to whatever minority) to get additional diversity points to get the job. That's why this whole affirmative action thing is kinda not helping with the whole equal rights issue for which it was initially created back in the 60s

Your belief is incorrect. Don't assume that a situation in one country applies in another.

I wasn't saying that it's something I believe is happening here. I just wanted to find out if such situation exists in UK and if anyone has a particular story related to it

But that is exactly what you DID say.

Sorry, you are right. I believe that there must be some kind of minority quotas here as well, of course I can be wrong and I only made this thread to find out more about it. By googling 'affirmative action in UK' I found this:

"Section 159 of the Equality Act 2010 allows an employer to treat an applicant or employee with a protected characteristic (eg race, sex or age) more favourably in connection with recruitment or promotion than someone without that characteristic who is as qualified for the role. The employer must reasonably think that people with the protected characteristic suffer a disadvantage or are under-represented in that particular activity. Taking the positive action must be a proportionate means of enabling or encouraging people to overcome the disadvantage or to take part in the activity."

Sorry, you are right. I believe that there must be some kind of minority quotas here as well, of course I can be wrong and I only made this thread to find out more about it. By googling 'affirmative action in UK' I found this:

"Section 159 of the Equality Act 2010 allows an employer to treat an applicant or employee with a protected characteristic (eg race, sex or age) more favourably in connection with recruitment or promotion than someone without that characteristic who is as qualified for the role. The employer must reasonably think that people with the protected characteristic suffer a disadvantage or are under-represented in that particular activity. Taking the positive action must be a proportionate means of enabling or encouraging people to overcome the disadvantage or to take part in the activity."

Hi, I know this is a late reply but ive just applied to UCAS 2 days ago my application was finally complete and sent off. I have the legal title on Mx. So its pretty obvious im trans. However, ive alrady got an offer from Exeter. Yep thats right. I applied on the 8th and woke up on the 10th with an offer. So I dont know if this is related or Exeter has a really fast application processing time but none of my freinds heard this quick, infact one is still waiting to hear back from Exeter afte sening an application 4 weeks ago.