The article implies (but does not state) that these students struggle once they're in. Getting in to Stanford has only marginal value on its own, the majority o

The article implies (but does not state) that these students struggle once they're in. Getting in to Stanford has only marginal value on its own, the majority of value is in graduating and receiving a degree. If parents are optimizing for success at step N-1 at the cost of success at step N, that is self-defeating.