Hopefully there's a twist in the article, but I'm not going to be able to find out.<p>I'm going to point out that any good university has a wide range of factors they consider for accepting applicants - there's no reason you should be able to expect that just because you hit the standard high marks (all a's, high sats, college prep -- yawn, step into line with the other 30,000 of those please, we have 200 spots).<p>And frankly, if the author is blaming external factors like they didn't have better parents and/or were not willing to commit fraud to get accepted, there may be another factor the author is blind to, but that others can see.<p>Just saying.