Scoring systems are useful, but adding some random chance to the idea would make the system more humane and useful. Say, rank the applicants by quantiles, take

Scoring systems are useful, but adding some random chance to the idea would make the system more humane and useful. Say, rank the applicants by quantiles, take some random distribution of applicants from people above some minimum level. Otherwise, you'll get exactly the situation described. Many of the "elites" generated by the present system are worse than useless. The Athenians actually used to select some of their officials by random chance. That worked out OK.