Kaleb’s Reviews > The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? > Status Update

"Of the 40,000-plus applicants, winnow out those who are unlikely to flourish at Harvard...Rather than engage in the exceedingly difficult and uncertain task of trying to predict who among them are the most surpassingly meritorious, choose the entering class by lottery. In other words, toss the folders of the qualified applicants down the stairs, pick up 2,000 of them, and leave it at that."