Against All Applications

Imagining better ways of picking people

 
We apply for everything: scholarships, internships, jobs, promotions, apartments, loans, grants, clubs, conferences, prizes, and even dating apps. A kid today might apply for every school they ever attend, from preschool to graduate school. Even if they get in, they’ll find they’ve merely entered the lobby, and every room beyond requires another application. Want to join the student radio station, take a seminar, or work in a professor’s lab? You’ll have to apply. In undergrad, being unpaid tour guide required an application––and 50% of people were rejected!

Google ngrams suggests the application apocalypse is about a generation old:

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Πηγή: experimentalhistory.substack.com