BM, do you exprience this envy from non-black/white men?

Exactly

 

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Completely agree with this. It's so competitive to gain a place to study Medicine at University. I can't see how he would have passed the interviews if his heart wasn't in it (even if he had the grades at A level). I don't think he would have bothered to take the UKCAT tests either.