<p>I’m sorry, but if *everyone *in a class at Yale, or any other elite university fails a test, somebody at the college has failed to do his job. I suppose it could be the admissions office, but I think it is more likely to be the professor. The majority of the students in any such class will be smart, driven, and hard-working, and many of them will be as well-prepared as American students get. If they all “fail,” who, exactly, are they being compared to? If it’s some abstract standard that nobody can achieve, then it’s absurd. Perhaps its (likely legendary) students from the past.</p>