You are invited to play a new board game, one combining some luck and a lot of strategy. Before you start, you are given the rules so you can study them and form a plan. You work hard to make notes and reminders for yourself, to familiarize yourself with the game: how to play and how to win. You walk into a room with your fellow players where the game board is laid out on the table, just to find that the game is Candy Land: a child’s game based purely on the roll of a die. That is “holistic” college admissions for the kids who busted their academic and EC humps for the first 18 years of life to find that they are up against people who’s stats are nowhere near theirs but will have an equal chance of getting in in an effort to build a “class”.