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When Your Background Isolates You in Professional School

I got into medical school but I'm the only student who's ever been on food stamps, and everyone else's casual references to their privileged childhood make me feel like an alien.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Elite professional training environments can create profound isolation for students from working-class backgrounds.

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