u/mathphdguy:

Not sure how much demand there is for this AMA, but thought I’d throw it out there. I just finished my first year at a university in the UK.

EDIT: Well, more demand than I expected apparently. Thanks everyone for your votes and comments; I’ll be back and forth from the computer for the next few hours, but keep asking, and I’ll answer when I can.

EDIT 2: Still going! Sorry America, I’ve been asleep. Back now, and I’ll try to answer the backlog of questions. Please continue to ask new ones if you’ve got them, I’m back.

At the end of this interesting essay explaining the performance gap among minorities in elite universities, there is an anecdote at the very bottom of the essay which intrigued me.

Here’s the screenshot: http://imgur.com/piKDe

Can you explain what’s going on here?

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