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I myself applied and was rejected, but there are no real hard feelings because I never really wanted to go there anyway (thought it would be antisocial). So this is not said out of jealousy or anything.
I also noticed the same trend. We had a girl, also an URM, who did 1 summer internship for minority engineers, and that was all, got good grades in math, and was suddenly accepted. Most of the kids at our school were ****ed. I'm sure many qualified applicants are accepted, and I know very smart people who go there, but they prevent themselves from being a truly quality institution by accepting many people way below the caliber of their school. While its more selective than Berkeley, (where I go btw), at least at Berkeley we can say everyone who got in deserves to be there (state abolished affirmative action).
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