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by petilon 1644 days ago
Because of "holistic review", admissions are subjective, which means admission officers can do whatever they want. Admission officers do have access to race, why else is it on applications?

Read the NYT story I linked to, to understand how application readers are gently guided to consider race, without explicitly being told to do so.

Excerpt from the story:

"I received an e-mail from the assistant director suggesting I was not with the program: “You’ve got 15 outlier, which is quite a lot."