I thought it was odd (plus I was a little jealous that I couldn't apply - married, grad school, lots of debt, etc). But the blogosphere and all the talking heads went crazy about pg forcing the children to drop out of school and move to Boston, giving them peanuts to take an unfair share of their equity, etc. People didn't get it so they attacked it. Looks like some things never change (Arc, caged lions, etc)

pg forced them to do this by putting an application form on the web with so many rounded corners they couldn't resist filling it out, or what? :)