Legal Question in Disability Law in Texas

Re: Discrimination against a white male in university system

No. UTD is a recognized academic institution and your credentials are, at best, marginal (I am uncertain as to why you purport to believe that your college in Alabama was so highly rated, but it was certainly not nationally rated at nearly the level you misrepresent. USNWR likely has classified it as a Southern regional liberal arts school and has not placed it in competition with other private, or public, institutions on its national rating scale.) While your college may fare satisfactorily when compared to other small schools which are not of national caliber and thus so classified, there is not one Alabama school whatsoever in the top several hundred in the country, according to the same rating source you cite. Your 2.7 undergraduate grade point average is woefully low for admission to any Ph.D. program in any discipline, even if you had gone to a decent undergraduate school, which you did not. You would have to prove that your race was the motivating factor for UTD declining your application. That appears not only highly problematic, but absurd, in light of your lack of credentials and the strength of the UTD program. I don't mean to be too harsh, but it is really offensive to Americans of all races that you would want to use the fact that you are white as an excuse for your inability to gain admission to a reputable Ph.D. program.

Re: Discrimination against a white male in university system

It's an awful assumption to make given what you've written, so I hope there's more to it than that. There's a big difference between a 2.7 and a 3.6, and you haven't indicated what the requirements were.

I seriously doubt that your GPA reflects your capabilities and accomplishment, but you haven't given any reason to believe that you have been the victim of discrimination.

First, you have to have some CLUE as to what the requirements are, not a mere guess. Then you have to look at the process for admission and have some reasonable expectation that you would be admitted if someone who looked more like you reviewed your qualifications. Then, you have to have some sort of motive,--national discrimination isn't simply inferred from the fact that you didn't get in and you assume foreigners kept you out. Do you really even know whether they ARE foreginers,--or is that an assumption? All of these things, you need to discuss with local counsel.

If you want to pursue a discrimination claim on the basis of national origin, --good luck! Well, actually, there's a case at the U. Michigan recently that might give you some support (an Indian man of one caste is suing because he believes he was denied a promotion from an Indian of another caste), but until you actually know who was admitted and have a reason to suspect that their credentials don't exceed yours, you've no case.

Still, you can always file a case and find out, but you may find yourself out of pocket a lot more than you think.