This is not a problem with Yale alone. It's a problem with people. Most people have no sense of social justice and have no problem kicking someone like her when

This is not a problem with Yale alone. It's a problem with people. Most people have no sense of social justice and have no problem kicking someone like her when she's down. It's tempting to think most people are good because few people are obviously evil, and that's wrong. Most people are weak. They're just shuffling through life, not giving a shit, and those who end up in power tend to be the worst (rather than being unambitious, they tend to be the ones with empty ambition). Here's why this sort of situation, within the U.S. social model, will never get better. Technology's somewhat different (for now, but the disgusting mainstream business/MBA culture continues to invade because engineers do not fucking fight for themselves) because a high-talent person (even with intermittent health issues) can add a lot of value. However, for most of white-collar America, "work" is just pointless private-sector social climbing. Pure image, no substance, because the work is not demanding and Making Decisions (parable of the bikeshed) is valued in its own right. The only way to resolve those environments and pick winners among the horde of petitioning narcissists is to set up pointless reliability contests and see who drops first. This idea that it's somehow wrong to discriminate against, or turn one's back on, those with organic physical or mental health issues throws a wrench in that whole game, because transient, context-driven illness (physical and mental) is the core of the selection process. It's what selects people out. The whole point of the old-style corporate-ladder game is to load people up with easy (and often purposeless) work, but in extreme volumes, and presume that those who break last are the best, and those who deserve to lead. (Actually, the opposite is true. Superficial reliability and creativity are negatively correlated, but that's another discussion.) But if you start designating specific illnesses as formal disabilities that must be accommodated (which, from a social justice perspective, one should) that game stops working. Could you imagine telling an investment bank that people with clinical depression could no longer be expected to work over 60 hours per week? So many people would get themselves diagnosed with depression that people with actual depression would be assumed to just be "faking it" anyway. What the OP experienced at Yale is wrong, but it's no different from what she'd expect in The Real World.