Sorry, but this article from last year (that many people thought was legit) is just so funny:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html
My favorite quote:
"“We had exceptional applicants, yes, but not a single student we couldn’t live without,” said a Stanford administrator who requested anonymity. “In the stack of applications that I reviewed, I didn’t see any gold medalists from the last Olympics — Summer or Winter Games — and while there was a 17-year-old who’d performed surgery, it wasn’t open-heart or a transplant or anything like that. She’ll thrive at Yale.”