One of my children is an anomaly (he comes from a family of average intelligence). He is extremely bright, a very politically conservative kid, registered (R) on his birthday, finished with high school math courses in 9th grade (calculus 1 & 2), Ranked 1st in his class of 290, plays several styles of guitar at a high level, has volunteered hundreds of hours of community service, perfect 800 Math score and top English score on SAT's, has even played varsity sports for a couple of years,leadership positions,etc., etc. He applied to 8 colleges and only got in to 2 state schools which were his fall-back schools. He has no black marks on his record. He is upset, though he won't admit to it, as girls in is school with inferior records got in to the very schools he was rejected from. He is awake, has been since an early age and knows exactly why this happened to him. I should add that he knows several other smart young men that this has happened to over the last couple of years. The social engineering project to subvert white men has been turned up high right now. Private colleges are admitting huge numbers of students who don not meet their usual standards, giving them large scholarships and are consequently in financial trouble. Are they waiting to be bailed out by tax payers through a Free College policy? I suspect that the pay for admission scandal playing on fake news right now is a deliberate cover for much worse that is actually going on. I should add that the reason you do not hear about this is that there is nobody disclosing their perceived failures.