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

DanBC
Criminal offence - bypassing a technical rights protection measure.
dvt
... says the high school senior being published in The Wall Street Journal. Can't tell if irony.
wfunction
If I could downvote for posting a link to a site that asks us to pay, I would. Don't have the karma unfortunately.
cma
flag it
davidroberts
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.

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accountoftheday
The fake achievement racket is reason enough for my future children to grow up in Europe.
jptoor
It's not that common. I don't know what's she's talking about. There's exaggerations, but very little "charity fraud."
hanleybrand
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.

jptoor
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.