If you look at university courses they are sometimes gruesomely over subscribed. From my own experience applying for medicine, almost every course I considered had 10x applicants to places. As such I didn't get in.
It is unreasonable and unfair to think we could reduce the number of applicants, however we can say we could reduce the waiting time. People spend months on end waiting for a decision, time better spent getting the grades. So instead I propose a new system.
Instead of dispensing letters as grades, give out a numbered rank, 5-6 significant figures. These are based on your total scaled uniform marks. So, someone with ABB might get 75.66. From this he could see was in the 75th best division of candidates, and ranked 66 within them. Whereas someone with A*A*AA might get 8.34. A numerical grade system along those lines.
Why do this? It provides massive differentiation between candidates. With this, applications can start on results day, and you could apply to as many courses as you liked. At the end of each day of this until the beginning of term, courses could take the candidates based on their grades. Now, instead of there being 6 classes of grades, there are several thousand. Day by day the courses fill up by candidates based purely on academic merit, no need for the bullshit subjectivity of interviews and personal statements.
Anyway, just an idea!
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