Which part of the following sentence were you unable to parse when you wrote what you did above?
Bringing this back to Harvard, remember at the end of the day, college application and acceptance is a deeply individual exercise. Colleges can craft a class among possibly tens of thousands of applicants, but individual students are looking at a handful of applications. They have no interest in being held to higher standards because too many students like them were accepted.
Or to explain it a different way to @collegedad13, talented students want equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.