<p>It is not racist to lay out the challenges of creating a class which has enough potential Classics majors to keep your professors of Greek literature happy while also having enough oboe players to fill your orchestra while also making sure that your entering class isn’t entirely filled with white male graduates of Choate and Horace Mann.</p>
<p>That’s not racist.</p>
<p>The presumption that the girl in question was passed over by a handful of schools because she had the triple whammy of being female, white, and from the Northeast I think is what gets people aggravated. She had the triple whammy of NOT being “different enough” from hundreds of other applications AND applying to schools close to home where she had zero geographic distinction AND applying for an already competitive and crowded academic field where the types of schools she applied to have their pick of the best and the brightest. Her being female and white were the least of her problems IMHO. She could have been an Af Am male in Chicago shut out by Northwestern, U Chicago and Wash U but admitted to Stanford. Is that racist?</p>