I know two females who went to Harvard on full rides. Both of them were “special” cases.
My adopted step sister is Native American and Italian.
She was raised by nice white Navy families on the Left Coast. Her grades were straight As. By the time she got out of Harvard around 1990 she was completely indoctrinated with a Sociology degree. She spent the remainder of the lives of her father and stepfather calling them baby-killers. She is a snobby entitled witch that still works for Harvard. She’s never had a job that wasn’t affiliated with Harvard.
The other girl went to school with my daughter. She graduated in the top 10 in her class of 900. She is a very very smart lady, majored in Biomedical Engineering. Not sure of her immigration status but neither of her parents speak English or went past 5th or 6th grade.
These two ladies got bonus points for ethnicity.
It sounds like the second girl who majored in Biomedical Engineering deserved to get in. I hope she does something with degree other than working for Big Pharma.
My son is currently in his last year at UNH studying Biomedical Engineering/Science. He could not get into Dartmouth or Harvard. He could have gotten into WPI but decided that the difference in the debt was not worth it. It would have still cost $45K/year after grants to send him to WPI(Worchester Polytech Institute). He wants to go to Dartmouth for grad school.