An alumnae of the Harvard-Stanford hoax student‘s school writes about her own experience.

CNN reports.

I survived college mania at America’s most stressed-out high school

This is the sad saga of “Sara,” a Korean high school senior in Virginia whose far-fetched college admissions hoax has become an international scandal, as reported by The Washington Post. (The Post only identified the student as “Sara” since she is a minor.)

Sara’s story is an extreme case, but it struck a nerve with me. Like Sara, I’m of Korean descent, and I graduated from the very same high school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

TJ, as it’s called, has been ranked the No.1 public high school in America by Newsweek (in 2014) and U.S. News and World Report (from 2007-2013).

I saw college mania firsthand when I was a TJ senior 12 years ago.

I graduated from TJ with a B+ average, 1460 SAT, and went to college on an academic and athletic scholarship with enough AP credits to graduate a semester early. But that was considered “mediocre” by TJ standards — I was voted “Least Likely to Graduate from College.”