how do you explain the fact that admissions officers rated asian students lower on "personality" than alumni interviewers?
from here:
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/06/harvard-discrimination...
from here:
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/06/harvard-discrimination...
A main reason for this is that alumni, like newly minted admission officers, have no clue how preposterously competitive the process is and how many monstrously academically qualified applicants there are. So they write rave reviews of smart kids who really aren't all that special in the context of the applicant pool.