Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Are you actually proposing reasonable changes to the system or just ranting (personal experience)? Personally, I think statements like yours do more harm than good and set a very poor example to the potential applicants that frequent this site. As I have said before we enrol sufficient numbers of smart, physically fit, healthy and clean applicants every year and unfortunaltely the ones that end up waiting the longest normally don't fit into any of those categories. But through their patience and perservance and the hard work of all recruiting personnel most of them get the opportunity to realize their dream. In 1979, I think the standards were much lower than there are today and I should know because that is when I joined