There’s also the fact that unlike with basketball, medical schools are far less unequal. Someone who graduates last in their class at Harvard Medical School is almost certainly going to be a worse doctor than someone who graduated first from a no-name satellite campus of a state school.

The best senior at Duke who doesn’t get picked by an NBA team is almost certainly worse than the lowest pick in the draft to still get a ten-day.

A “weak” FMVP is definitely not nearly as bad as graduating last from Harvard Medical School. The latter is actually probably going to be unemployed.

It’s always easier in America to get into a university than it is to graduate from one, and Ivy League schools are no exception.