The ivy league admissions process is incredibly corrupt and broken. I worked as the IT person in an top ivy league admissions department when I was younger and

The ivy league admissions process is incredibly corrupt and broken. I worked as the IT person in an top ivy league admissions department when I was younger and got to know the admissions officers very well. There are many factors in admissions, but race is a very key factor. I remember one choice comment one of the admissions officers said to me ("If I see one more white kid from New York with a 4.0, I'm going to start throwing them straight in the trash"). None of the admissions officers were white, Asian, or Indian (as I was), and all were very comfortable talking about how they tried not to admit such candidates. After all, incoming classes need to have a certain percentage of specific minorities. Interestingly, because these schools look to raise GLOBAL leaders, those quotas must represent global race proportions (with a couple of exceptions). The other revelation was the vast number of students admitted from "the list". A list of students whose application is pre-approved for admission by the dean. These are children of benefactors, employees, and teachers, and each of their close friends and relatives. It doesn't sound so bad until you realize it amounts to about 20% of each incoming class! Such students can only be rejected if the admissions officer writes a letter to the dean explaining why. None of the admissions officers had ever written one. Of course, since most of the students on the list are white, they become the majority of white students admitted.