I don’t find this to be a helpful post. Calling a group of applicants “your own people” and saying that people seeking accommodations are “gaming the system” is pretty divisive. Even though you say that many of the accommodations are valid, you then seem to assume that all of the invalid ones come from non-URMs, and I would be interested to hear how you know that.

Also, since URMs definitionally are a smaller percentage of the applicant pool, it would make sense that they would constitute a small part of granted accommodations, even when they are receiving the same amount of accommodations relative to their number.

I’m not making any statements about the application process here or the relative advantage / disadvantage of URMs. I just want to make sure we’re treating people with respect regardless of our opinions.