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<p>Actually, I’m not sure about that. You get bad grades, possibly because you took some very difficult courses, those bad grades stay with you for life. Hence, if you get rejected because of your poor grades in one application cycle, you are likely to get rejected in the next cycle because of the same bad grades. Hence, the rejection chances are correlated.</p>
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<p>What concerns me is the inefficiency in the present system. Sure, somebody who gets rejected unfairly may be able to get in the next time around. But that’s clearly not efficient for him and not efficient for society, as that basically means that the nation is deprived of that person’s medical services for a year (and the US health care system doesn’t score all that highly to begin with). </p>
<p>Now, certainly, I agree that there will always be some level of inefficiency. You will always have some people slipping through the cracks. But that isn’t an excuse to just throw your hands up in the air and do nothing. You should always be trying to improve your processes to eliminate sources of inefficiency.</p>