Please, enough with the sugarcoating.
It's surprising how the narrative is always spun negatively to those legitimately criticizing admissions. Saying he / she was "smart enough," and that we "cannot see" such talent and qualification from an applicant of this caliber, is an insult to ourselves that worked hard in the journey. While you're certainly correct that caliber isn't directly correlated to future performance, non-URMs aren't given that same consideration. Stop propping up someone who probably shouldn't be in dental school right now.
Let's be perfectly clear: hundreds and hundreds of applicants, with undeniably better performance stats and a holistic top-to-bottom profile, were waitlisted or denied over a URM with a 3.0 sGPA, 17 AA 17 TS, and 50 shadowing hours. That is not okay. It's even more embarrassing when they don't even have the common sense to realize the opportunity they were given and ask a forum for obvious advice. Are we serious right now?