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I'm European too and I can assure you that non-white people are discriminated at the admission stage to top European universities. Not via race, but via name. It's well known that universities and landlords reject people because they have a Muslim sounding name.

We have DEI in Europe too, but here it's increasingly codified into law.

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I can guarantee you this is not the case, at least at the uni where I‘m doing my PhD. There is no name in the admission system, it‘s done automatically by grades or tests most of the time.

Same, and even in the ones that have interview. I would guess outside very bad language skills it might even give boost...

I don't see how you could possibly hire graduate students into a lab without knowing their research and publishing history (impossible to anonymize).

Academia certainly has its faults, but you won't find a field more accepting of diversity and hiring foreigners anywhere else.

+1 - University of Warsaw and other universities I know - admission is automatic based on grades only

Could you please name one or two of such universities? I am a EU citizen and I literally never heard of this. I am aware that in some regions in some of our countries you might end up with a racist professor etc., but never heard you can be excluded based on name.

That's simply illegal.

In Poland, admission to public universities is only based on your standardized test score. People grading standardized tests don't know your name or anything beyond a number, so discrimination is simply impossible.

Any reference or link to those policies? I have never seen such a thing.

In Portugal you get into university strictly based on your test scores and school grades, the university doesn't get to "pick" who it accepts.

Which countries are you referring to?

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