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Bryan Walsh @ Vox · 04/19/2023 10:05 EDT

Why we should run elite college admissions like a lottery

The exterior of Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is pictured on October 5, 2018. | Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesThe case for leaving some top college applications to chance. April is the cruelest month — at least for the 54,995 applicants who discovered a couple of weeks ago that they will not be part of Harvard’s class of 2027, to which just 3.41 percent of applicants gained admission. The same goes for the 49,975 applicants who didn’t gain admission to

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