I don’t know how old you are now, but that’s not how it is now. There have been many articles posted on Free Republic about what it takes to get in these schools.
EVERYBODY’S got a 4.0.
So you have to give up baseball and take a college course over the summer so you have a 4.3 and beat out the “lazy” American.
Entire childhoods and teenage years spent at chinese-style dog-training centers with no time out for anything that's not on government/standardized tests... that's the future for american kids.