Frank Bruni is fun to read. He’s been following along a strange ritual of the elite universities. How difficult is it to make the cutoff to get into one of these prestigious schools? Bruni writes that while Stanford set records at only accepting 5% of applicants, it now has reached a new high – or is that low of 0%? Click here to read the amusing parody.
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