Without debating as to the overall problem of certain ethnicities being underrepresented in medicine, I'd really like to see you rationale for stating that you need non-white physicians at that particular institution. As a current (white) medical student at a hospital in an almost entirely black neighborhood staffed by mainly white physicians, I'm struggling to see how you feel having non-white physicians will greatly impact the quality of care our patients receive. You can argue a comfort level or cultural understanding, but I can tell you that even before you reach the wards you have hours of lectures on understanding the role your upbringing had on how you see the world and teaching you how to respect and interact with people from other cultures. And in terms of comfort, any good doctor can establish rapport with just about any patient. I've never once had uncomfortable interactions with a patient of any race outside of combative patients in the ED or actively psychotic patients in the psych ED, and I'm fairly certain that the color of my skin didn't make a difference there.

Also, I don't see his circumstances as particularly inspiring regardless of race. He performed less well than his peers and competitors, ignored the advice of well-informed elders who are paid to have knowledge of the situation, and is now gloating about proving them wrong when their advice was actually perfectly sound. He sounds petty and immature, two traits which do not make me confident about his skills as a future member of this profession.

Edit: I never used this subreddit during my pre-med days, and now I'm glad that I didn't. I asked a question and presented my argument in a logical manner. I spoke from a position of experience that many of you clearly do not have simply by virtue of the fact that you couldn't have had it yet as undergrads. And yet, without a single response from either the poster I was responding to or any of the other users, I am being downvoted for disagreeing with the majority opinion in the thread.