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"he views college admissions as a crapshoot. “I don’t really know what they are looking for,” he said." And therein lies the problem. I understand the bed too deviate from standardized testing and evaluate holistically. But when those evaluations are opaque, then anything goes, really, and it's impossible to tell what will work for your target school