“…Unfortunately, for many programs, limited to no data exists on differences in outcomes by gender identity, race, citizenship status, LGBTQ + identity, first‐generation student status, or many other identity axes. This is a result of either a lack of data collection (McLaughlin et al., 2023) and/or statistically small sample sizes of underrepresented groups. As the geosciences are one of the least racially diverse scientific fields (Bernard & Cooperdock, 2018; Dutt, 2020), and women, non‐binary people, and disabled people remain underrepresented in certain geoscience subfields (Gonzalez, 2009; Ranganathan et al., 2021), it is vital that geoscience graduate programs assess their qualifying examinations as a potential point of failure of the academe for marginalized groups.…”