> This makes me think more and more that the right way to handle too many applications to a school is a lottery system. Simply put, all students with (grades/sc

> This makes me think more and more that the right way to handle too many applications to a school is a lottery system. Simply put, all students with (grades/scores > X) qualify for the school get put into a lottery. The winners are admitted. > > Lotteries are hard to bribe, hard to accuse of racial bias, and hard to call unfair. That strikes me as very naive. Having "grade > X" (presumably you mean high school grades, right?) is entirely based on how your high school grades, for which there is voluminous data that it is extremely racially biased based on districting, etc. This simply passes the incentives for corruption one step earlier in the process, to people who are even less invested in the outcome than the universities themselves are.