<p>Holistic admissions allows other factors to be taken into consideration and this study doesn’t read or sound like a judgement of holistic admissions. That judgement is an over reach based on what is presented. It does show that people have biases they find difficult to overcome. They’d rather have a 4.0 student from any school than a 3.0 student from a very hard school.</p>
<p>And that doesn’t prove that the admissions decisions were wrong in any way.</p>