<p>Its somewhat flawed but then again everything in this world is, cuz nothings perfect. The problem is that in western culture, admissions places a huge emphasis on the personal circumstances/subjective parts of the application such as EC's, essays, etc which are hard to quantify, whereas in Asia and other parts of the world, its more stats driven which is easily quantifiable and easy to distinguish between applicants. Thus it is b/c of this holistic process U.S. schools use to eval apps that things such as AA based on race, which some view as very flawed, are used to create diversity/level the playing field for disadvantaged students, generally speaking, but this is not always the case</p>