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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Picking socks to match an outfit and picking candidates to build an incoming class are not remotely equivalent. [/quote]

Why not? That's how choices are made. The 1590 kid was never guaranteed that spot. He has no idea who took "his" spot. Could have been any number of factors. He was male, from the wrong state, bested by applicants with a 1600, not well rounded enough, had a lower GPA, weaker essays, etc etc. Why this guy decided it was solely based on his race is just his best guess which excludes a number of other likely reasons.[/quote]

+1000

when 95%+ are rejected and over 90% of those rejected were "highly qualified" the reasons for rejection are not well known---one kid gets in because their volunteer work and essay about it was interesting and caught the AO attention---it was different than the previous 50 they had read so it goes in the Positive/definate pile.  Yours is read and it's similar to the previous 20 the AO just read, so it goes in the "not today"/rejected pile. Yes, 90% of the applicants are highly qualified, yet only 3.4% are gonna make it in, nothing about why is cut and dry.  [/quote]

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