Don't cut the scores, don't cut the GPA, doesn't matter how much Jesse or Al bitch, you're still not qualified, and you're still not gonna get in.
I heard the same bullshit when I was going through Nuke School, and the same thing from the kids when I was in recruiting. Amazing how quickly some of them stopped crying when I said that nuclear power was a "zero tolerance" profession.
That being said, I knew a lot of minorities (black, Asian, and Hispanic) nukes that had their shit wired together VERY well.