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Just like brilliant people that gets rejected from prestigious universities and companies, there's bound to be undeserving people that gets in.

Even if there's a vetting accuracy of 99.9% (for the sake of argument), there's still a chance that some lemon will fall through the cracks. So after 1000 seeds, there should be 1 lemon.

Now does that make the program any less prestigious? No, but these things happen.

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> Just like brilliant people that gets rejected from prestigious universities and companies, there's bound to be undeserving people that gets in.

This isn't that great of an analogy because there are plenty of "hard" cutoffs at both elite companies and elite schools. For example, no matter who you are, you'll never get into Yale Law with an LSAT of 125.

I'd argue it's a fine analogy. You can get into Yale undergrad with an SAT of 1250, for example.

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