That's a nice thing to say, but it's utterly unrealistic when 29,000 students apply to Yale every year. So you need a system to decide who gets in and who does

That's a nice thing to say, but it's utterly unrealistic when 29,000 students apply to Yale every year. So you need a system to decide who gets in and who doesn't. Just like a job interview, you don't just hire people at random. Some kind of system is necessary.