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Just wait until you have to start fretting about graduate school -- graduate school admissions criteria are even less clear. (And yet nobody complains.)
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Well, actually, yeah they do. I've heard some of them complain rather loudly.
However, I would call and raise you by pointing to the way that hiring and promotion is done in the private sector. If you think college admissions are subjective, private sector hiring/promotion/firing decisions are
really subjective. Most states are at-will states meaning that your employer can terminate you at any time for any reason or no reason at all. You can be the absolute best employee in the company, and get laid off anyway. For example, if the company decides to eliminate your entire department, then it doesn't matter how good you are, you're out of a job. Heck, I would argue that there are certain companies where doing excellent work actually
increases your chances of getting terminated. For example, you might be so good at your job that your manager begins to fear that you will replace him, so the safe thing for him to do is terminate you. I know a few people to which I strongly suspect this has happened.