Wow, it’s “reality,” when he never saw apps, essays, ECs, LoRs, etc, never discussed reviews, processes or goals with adcoms? (And theh colleges of students examined were not named?) But Zakaria and various interest groups say it, so it’s true? And you say Zakaria states there are quotas, so there are?
He concludes that a few elite schools have soft quotas after looking at the percent of Asians hovering at the same percentage while their percentage has gone up at schools that don’t weigh URM as heavily (UCs, MIT, Cal Tech, other stem schools). He compares this to how the ivies kept out Jewish students in the early 20th century by imposing hard quotas (legal back then) and changing from stats only to stats and other considerations (holistic today). He’s not part of any interest group and his point was for people to do their own research on where the soft quotas were going on.