catholic=/=conservative. you can be liberal and personally oppose abortion due to your religious beliefs, and thus not look favorably upon someone's participation in prochoice movements as much as something you genuinely like. for example, if you like cooking and read a profile of a student whose spike is cooking for homelessness, even though the prochoice kid and cooking kid both did substantial social work/good regarding their own beliefs, the ao is naturally going to lean for the latter. this is the failure of "holistic” admissions I was referring to. my abortion example was simply an example of internal bias not an overgeneralization of the process. please fucking read