The trustees of the Avonbridge summer drama workshop have decided to offer scholarships to the top 10 percent of loca...

I think E weakens, not D. E, "Dividing applicants into local and nonlocal groups is unfair because it favors nonlocal applicants." makes more sense to me compared to the correct answer D. Although E says it's unfair, its underlying indication is that the local poll is smaller than the nonlocal poll b/c the nonlocal poll has more population and it's harder for people to defeat each other in the competition. It's like the University of California system: the in-state students only compete with other CA students, which is way less than the entire US population; while the out-of-state students have to compete with all the applicants across the US (and international applicants) to get the admission. On the other hand, D says "Some of the applicants who are offered scholarships could have less highly evaluated auditions than some of the applicants who are not offered scholarships." It doesn't make much sense as a weakening answer. I think D instead strengthens b/c the trustee only wants the top students in the local poll and in the nonlocal poll separately. Why do we compare the nonlocal candidates to the local candidates? This comparison, to me, distorted the original intention of the trustee. Could you help? Thank you so much!