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<p>And, again, I am suggesting that that might not be the most appropriate perspective for an individual to take in assessing fairness. The admissions committee is always looking at the pool as a whole, and trying to construct the best whole class it can. They are rarely, if ever, comparing Candidate X directly with Candidate Y, and doing an analysis of the relative merits of such a small subset. Rather, they are looking at a vast sea of 32,000 applications and trying to pick out those that will, together, construct the kind of total mosaic, if you will, that they envision for the class. They’re not usually rejecting applications so much as aren’t able to affirmatively select more than a very few, given the constraints of class size.</p>