Don’t think about it in that manner. They don’t reject you, they simply don’t accept you. They didn’t look at your application and say “nope, we don’t want this one”. They looked at the bunch of applications and said “here are 5,000 that look as though they would do well, but we can only accept 2,000, so we’ll do our best and put together a class that would fulfill our needs as best we can”.
For your particular profile, your “rejections” will likely be along the lines of “we would take you if we had enough places”.
Most students attend a large public university which accepts more than 50% of the applicants, and their incoming class is fewer than 40% of the students who they have accepted.
UIUC received some 67,000 applications in 2023, of which they accepted around 29,000, of whom 8,300 enrolled. I cannot see how “socially engineering” these 8,000 is even possible.
Same for the U California system, the Cal State system, the UT system, the TAMU system, The Florida public universities, etc, etc, etc,
Over 80% of all students attending four year college are attending a college which accepts more than 50% of their applicants. More than 50% of all students attending a four year college attend a colleges which accepts more than 75% of their applicants.
Fewer than 5% of all student attend a college which accepts fewer than 25% of their applicants. What you are describing is the admissions process of s amll number of colleges which accept fewer than 25% of their applicants.
This “Social Engineering” that you claim is happening is not even possible at colleges which some 90% or more of all students attend.