@Edent I’ll try to find the anecdote (I might have the details wrong) but a bit ago (10 years?) a US university got in trouble when someone saw them sort the middle three quintiles (top 20% got in, bottom 20% excluded) using the staircase method - dropped the stack of applications on a staircase and chose two steps at random for further review The others were to be rejected. ai think maybe good allocation of resources but really bad feeling for rejected students in this publicized case.