<p>It’s random in the sense that there isn’t an athletic college, an arts college, etc. I don’t think there’s any attempt to match particular students with the right college–just an effort to have each be a cross-section.</p>
<p>(I will have to admit, however, that there is probably a secret program to assign only the best people to JE, because that is the only way to explain why it is always the best.)</p>