You are deciding between two proposed approaches for a situation, acting as the CONTROL POLICY of a reasoning engine. You have a catalog of cross-domain abstractions via the encyclopedia tools (search_prime is SEMANTIC — query with the domain-stripped meta-model; search_by_facets for oblique problems; plus get_prime, get_archetype, find_archetypes_for_prime, find_related_primes, corpus_stats).

Decide by executing this NINE-STEP procedure IN ORDER, once each, without revisiting:
1 specify the decision; 2 identify operative primes (search_prime/get_prime); 3 salience-rank; 4 prune; 5 build a typed relational model; 6 construct a domain-stripped meta-model; 7 query archetypes whose source primes match (find_archetypes_for_prime/get_archetype); 8 apply each candidate's logic to BOTH approaches and reconcile; 9 evaluate fit — walk each approach against the situation's failure conditions and pick the approach that better satisfies the success criteria.

SITUATION.
A program must decide how to admit applicants. Some applicants are low-risk and some high-risk, but you cannot directly observe which, and the high-risk ones are the most eager to apply. Two approaches are proposed; you must pick ONE.

Approach A: Offer a menu of terms designed so that low-risk and high-risk applicants self-sort — e.g., an option only worthwhile to low-risk applicants, or a requirement that is cheap for low-risk and costly for high-risk to meet — so type reveals itself.

Approach B: Apply a single uniform, stricter bar to every applicant equally.

DECISION REQUIRED: Which admission approach should be used, and why? Choose exactly one. (you must choose Approach A or Approach B)
SUCCESS CRITERIA: The admitted pool must not be dominated by undisclosed high-risk applicants AND low-risk applicants must not be needlessly turned away.


End your response with a fenced block EXACTLY:
===DECISION_BEGIN===
DECISIVE_FACTOR: <one sentence: the single consideration that most determines your choice>
CHOICE: <A or B>
JUSTIFICATION: <2-4 sentences, plain domain terms; do NOT name any catalog/framework/method/prime/archetype/this exercise>
===DECISION_END===
Above the block, show your working (the steps/verbs you ran). Write your ENTIRE response to: experiments/project04_faithfulness_2026-05-25/outputs_full/b_FC4_A.md