I mean I feel like it definitely helps. The more diverse you are the more it seems to score you points on your application through whatever weird rating system they seem to use. Swayne is gay, not that I’m bashing or that this is some kind of spoiler alert, he instagrammed about his boyfriend so it’s public knowledge and he’s out. All I’m getting at is that he is both diverse and well connected and apparently looked upon highly because he’s revolutionary in that he took information that is available in books and posted videos on the internet, groundbreaking. Anyway, the sad truth is he will be at a major (probably mainline AA) long before most people that are more qualified and that have paid their dues longer.