A student with stronger grades and scores can still lose a university seat because of race. Whether you believe that’s justice or discrimination depends on your view of affirmative action, but Canadians deserve an honest debate about it.

As a “racialized” high schooler applying to university, I am worried about the direction of equity in Canadian universities. Alberta’s own Expert Panel on Post-Secondary Institution Funding found that 48 per cent of the province’s post-secondary institutions have admissions practices that target specific groups.

A study in the Canadian Medical Education Journal showed that Canadian medical schools that adopt equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI), such as Dalhousie University, guarantee interviews to racialized applicants, whereas others require applicants to meet minimum thresholds to even be considered for one.

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The study also found Indigenous applicants had a significantly lower average GPA than other applicants, and Black applicants had significantly lower average scores on CASPer, a........

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