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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I highly recommend you read “ A year Inside College Admissions: Who Gets in and Why “ , by Jeffrey Selingo.

https://a.co/d/9B98QsX

The author provides a history about holistic admissions, which started in the first half of the 20th century. Sadly, holistic admissions are darkly rooted in anti-semitism.

Initially,  the ivies and the top universities in the North East, only used grades and testing for candidates to get into the school. However, the schools which were predominantly, white and protestant, started realizing that Jewish students were doing very well on those tests. Because they wanted to limit the number of Jews at their schools, they started with this whole concept of holistic admissions: that it’s not just about grades, it’s about athletics,  background, and the whole candidate story.
The reason colleges do not want the admissions process to be as straight forward and as transparent,  and just about academics,  is because every year,  each college has different needs,  and they want to admit students that meet those needs. One year, they may need more full pay, wealthy students, another year, they may need more athletes, another year, they may have a lot of “ Deans list “ students ( children of big donors , and well connected families) which limit the spots for regular kids … the list goes on and on …
 Making the process only about grades would not allow colleges to admit students that match their ever changing, yearly needs. The whole concept of holistic admissions is purely set up to benefit the colleges in making their process less and less transparent.

Unfortunately, students get the short end of the stick here.

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