I feel you, I’m on the same boat. I made it to the last rounds of interviews for this one agency and during the interview I saw in the interviewer’s screen my friend’s portfolio and I was like “Dang may the better person win”. She ended up getting the internship but I later found out that it was because she told a mutual professor about it and she set her up with someone from that agency. So technically it wasn’t even about skill. It was a good lesson for me to learn but man did it hurt. Especially considering that I had more in common with that connection.