Thank you - the old system is very much like what I faced in the 90s in Latin America. You do the test, get blindly ranked and are chosen based on the number of

Thank you - the old system is very much like what I faced in the 90s in Latin America. You do the test, get blindly ranked and are chosen based on the number of openings and your ranking. You could have been the least diverse human in the world - your test scores did the talking. But the new system is actually not too different from many universities in the US. I never got a rejection letter from Yale but I don't think they are that specific in why you got rejected. As the parent of an American high schooler, I have to deal with this subjectivity myself. We hear things like "School X loves people who volunteer at nursing homes". There are companies specialized in guiding your kid towards the subjective requirements of each school, including training your kid to say the things that certain schools like to hear