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> Obviously hard objective criteria are not be enough to get into Harvard, and they need to dip into subjectivity which is rife with bias.

Why do they need to dip into subjectivity? Why not just set admission standards and then run a lottery on everyone who meets those standards?

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Using randomness to evaluate students is an admission that it's impossible to evaluate them with any objective or subjective criteria. While it would be fair, it's a dereliction of responsibility on the part of admissions officers.

But from all we know about recruitment and bias we know that it is impossible to fairly evaluate candidates.

Random selection would be closer to meritocracy than anything that involves humans evaluating other humans.

Random would just favor the biggest demographic

Get rid of the admissions officers.

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