Anecdotally we are friends with an Asian American girl with super impressive stats who was rejected from the elites and I can’t believe it was anything other than racial bias. Her ECs were amazing but alas were right in that stereotype. Perhaps if she sang choir instead of playing violin, or did something like cheerleading… who knows? She worked hard her whole life only to be told sorry, we have enough kids like that. I would love to see a study in which researchers submitted applications that are virtually identical except for name and race just to see what happens. They do employment studies like this all the time, so why not for college?