I think this is an underrated idea in many domains. So many different things, including grant funding, university admissions, etc. should use a minimum threshol

I think this is an underrated idea in many domains. So many different things, including grant funding, university admissions, etc. should use a minimum threshold criteria with acceptances randomly granted to those meeting the criteria. The problem right now is that there are too many qualified people, leading to a rat race in which everyone's working for that extra 1% to set them apart from everyone else. But in reality, the standardized exams/scoring systems we use aren't sensitive enough to reliably differentiate people precisely. This leads to unneeded stress and wasted energy on trying to game the system to get that extra 1%. Definitely a controversial idea and would pose huge challenges to the system we have now. We'd have to confront the idea that a Harvard pedigree or an R01 NIH grant aren't quite the strong indicators of success that we think they are. We’d also have to consider that brilliance can be found in places we haven’t looked more often than we think.