@dolemite yeah that’s the one. though why wouldn’t they admit someone who was a minority or low income, who has actually lived through those diverse experiences rather than just someone who saw them from afar as a second source? yes her experience is more diverse than those who have a more suburban/prep school background but why not instead admit someone who actually lived through those diverse experiences and wasn’t just a witness to her classmates living through them? (though this is highly rhetorical cuz as you said she was a great applicant in other ways, and we don’t even know if any of her classmates applied to yale that weren’t white/wealthy)