@riversider Understanding the college admissions process is key to understanding the real issue about the admissions scandal (which has it’s own thread btw). I don’t hold anything against admissions at Yale, Stanford, Wake Forest, UCLA, UCB the other elite schools involved, but I understand how the process works and this was just a bad apple or two out of thousands and thousands and thousands. It really is statistically insignificant.
Understanding holistic admissions can be challenging for some to understand the real process enough to make it work for them, so I don’t see it as Tufts, but as being uniformed and sometimes just a defense for some to deal with their own rejection. USC takes a diverse students full of brilliance both academically and creatively. Not getting accepted is just hard for people to understand, I think that is more an issue with the person than the university whether USC or anywhere else. Sometimes it is best to move on than harbor such resentment and look for things to blame. It is always easy to identify when someone that didn’t get into a school or just harbors hatred for it - they all came out during the scandal to just use the discussion about it as an outlet for all their bitterness over rejection.
The best schools don’t have enough room for all the best students, someone has to win, someone has to lose in the admissions game. Hopefully most find a good school for them and focus their energy on good things.