Hopefully there's a twist in the article, but I'm not going to be able to find out.

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).

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.

Just saying.

... says the high school senior being published in The Wall Street Journal. Can't tell if irony.

If I could downvote for posting a link to a site that asks us to pay, I would. Don't have the karma unfortunately.

Sorry, I posted this. I Googled into it and didn't realize it was behind a paywall. And I can't delete it.

When you do get the karma to downvote, you'll discover that it doesn't work on links, only on comments.

flag it

This is awful. I don't know how it was published in the WSJ. I can't tell if it's satire or not... I'm actually angry at her entitlement here.

The fake achievement racket is reason enough for my future children to grow up in Europe.

It's not that common. I don't know what's she's talking about. There's exaggerations, but very little "charity fraud."

Side note: is the only way to bypass the wsj paywell via a google search?

That's what I did. I actually had to do it in incognito mode because (presumably) they use cookies to try to prevent that.

Someone ought to write an extension...

Criminal offence - bypassing a technical rights protection measure.