| I know people with stellar stats who were rejected from NASA SHARP (and YESS) and actually got in RSI (AltairAqua by both, zogoto by SHARP) and I also know of some pretty mediocre non-black, non-Hispanic people admitted by SHARP. I have a feeling that exceptional applicants may be rejected from NASA SHARP or YESS if they're not minorities because they may discourage the minorities in those same programs. If my hypothesis is true, then you can't merely evaluate programs based on their admission rates. But of course, what matters is what one got out of the program, not how selective it is. |