“… So the college admissions scandal kind of revealed three big things about the college admissions system being broken: 1) that it’s exploitable, 2) that it’s broken, and 3) that it’s arbitrary. Are those pieces of a system that was exposed as not working the way idealists think it works — issues that can be planned for in the college planning process?” …
https://www.nepr.net/post/handling-stress-panic-and-nascent-adulthood-college-admissions-process