Dismissed from dental school due to racial discrimination

[Dry Risk]

Hi all,
I know of a friend who was a 4.0 in dental school and almost ready to finish. The school that this person was in dismissed them due to consistent racial discrimination. That person feels powerless and no lawyer will take the case. That person through psychiatric therapy showed proof that their targeting created a major depressive disorder and insomnia. How can someone like that fight this cruel injustice?

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[dentalatbama]

In times like these you must expose the school

 

[EthylMethylMan]

… no lawyer will take the case…

The natural follow-up question to this is why? Could this person be mistaken about being discriminated against? Maybe there were professionalism issues? Maybe there were academic issues? I mean, true racial discrimination is a really unlikely situation. The school invested time and resources into your friend. I’m not a dentist, but I assume dental schools want to graduate all their students. Looks better for a school to graduate full classes of great dentists than to dismiss people for no legitimate reason. Their motivation in this case would be “I’m such an evil racist that I’ll risk my school’s image and my career by dismissing this student.” It’s possible I guess, but I’m not convinced someone with that mentality is going to be functional enough to become faculty at a dental school.

If your friend really wants to move forward, only option I can see is to keep consulting lawyers until one will take the case. But it sounds like there isn’t a strong case if multiple lawyers are saying no.

 

[Dry Risk]

Lawyers usually take slam dunk cases. Something like this would be very costly. Before you speak analyze the situation.

 

[Dry Risk]

It’s religious persecution and to the American mind that sort of matter does not exist. How can someone so voiceless be heard?

 

[Boofy]

How would we analyze the situation with no other information? Going 4 years in debt for a doctorate and not receiving said diploma is even more costly.

 

[EthylMethylMan]

Lawyers usually take slam dunk cases. Something like this would be very costly. Before you speak analyze the situation.

Not really sure what additional analysis you expected given how little information you gave us. But I’m telling you, if there’s really no legitimate reason for dismissal, and this person can make a case that they were racially/religiously discriminated against, that would 100% be a slam-dunk case. Surely a reason for dismissal was given to this person. If the reason given was obviously BS, it should be easy to prove that with transcripts, evaluations, etc.