The cut-off date is only used for the tiebreaker. Many candidates have a 456 score, but not all are selected. In this case, priority is given according to the date the profile is submitted, this is where the cut-off date is used.Guys still trying to make sense of the distribution. As of march 8th, the pool distribution for those above 451 is 2674(490 + 2184). Now if the cutoff date is March 3rd, how did 3000 candidates come in above 456?