There’s no shortage of people who meet any of that criteria! The whole point of a selective college is they have to select from a pool of already qualified app

There’s no shortage of people who meet any of that criteria! The whole point of a selective college is they have to select from a pool of already qualified applicants. There is no objective measure to measure against when you’re splitting hairs. Even were you to limit it to “objective” requirements like test score and GPA, how do you decide between two students for one spot when both have the exact same scores? There is no shortage of perfect scores applying to Harvard. And yet a majority, or even a plurality, of any given class of admits didn’t have perfect scores.