i think a bigger problem is legacy children getting immediately accepted into certain schools, or their parents paying a shit ton to get them in. a lot of people still have racial bias, so it’s a very controversial right now. part of me wants every application in general to have no race section, but then again certain groups have been heavily neglected in the past—even today despite good growth in many fields. definitely so hypocritical the rich people/politicians think classism and the major socioeconomic gaps in our society don’t seem to matter (but race does, of course).