part?

These people couldn't get in on their own merits and had to go through a side door - looks like 30 people or so, maybe more, got through the side door.

Out of millions upon millions of students, who had to get in the front door.

Sure, it's appalling and dishonest and wrong, and only the hyper rich could do it.

But it appears that not that many people actually did it successfully, because the system mostly works.