Things get even worse where the application process is completely unaccountable to the future success of the applicant. When you hire someone for a job, you get

Things get even worse where the application process is completely unaccountable to the future success of the applicant. When you hire someone for a job, you get some feedback on how that person does at said job. In Medicine for example, this is not the case. Whether the person you admit to your university or residency program ends up being fantastic or a psychopathic murder is not even considered.