"Such a lottery would permit the college to determine whether its traditional selection criteria did any better than chance in predicting success in school and in later life; my own guess is that lottery admits would be amply—perhaps equally—represented among the institution’s most distinguished graduates.
"Last, and not least, by undermining the dubious assumption that the applicants admitted are those with the most merit, a lottery might promote a certain measure of humility—a quality in short supply in the upper rungs of the 'meritocracy'—among admission officers and students alike."
Jerome Karabel in The New York Times offers a proposal for university admissions.
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