Thursday 15 September 2022 02:50 AM Sydney University student was 'snobbed' at medical school Open Day as a person ... trends now
A medical student has claimed his neighbourhood and the humble state high school background led to him being led to him being 'snobbed' at one of Australia's most prestigious universities.
The experience was so humiliating that Fahad said it almost caused him to give up his dream of becoming a doctor.
In a TikTok video, which has almost 50K likes, third-year medical student Fahad recalled his experience of attending Sydney University's Open Day as a year 12 student in 2016 from western Sydney.
Under the caption 'Getting snobbed @USyd Open Day as a person from Western Sydney' Fahad said the first thing he did was go to the medicine information session.
'I saw that there were two medical students, I think, and about 10 Year 12 students with them,' Fahad says.
'When I went close to them I heard them speaking about things like 'does Mr X still teach maths and does Mrs X still do that?'
'And they were all having a laugh and I went 'look they are all mates, that's like pretty nice'.'
The caption on the TikTok video changes to: 'This is why I believe there's parts of USyd with a toxic selective/private school culture' as Fahad describes trying to join in the conversation.
'I tried to say hello and they ignored me,' he says.
'And then I say it again... I say 'Hi my name's Fahad'.
Fahad says he was 'completely humiliated' by the experience of being snubbed at a Sydney University medical studies information session because he didn't go to the same schools as all the other people there
'And they all turned around and they looked at me and then they looked away and one of the medical students was like 'oh, hi'.
'And then they all started talking about their high school again and I said 'what the hell? They just like kind of ignored me',' Fahad says.
'But I said 'You know what? The session is starting in five minutes, maybe this is just a group of mates and fair enough if they want to talk to their mates before they start talking to everyone, that's fine'.'
However, things did not improve when the session started.
'The first question they asked was 'Which high school did everyone go to?',' Fahad says.
'Most of them were James Ruse students, there was some Sydney Boys [High] and Sydney Girls.
