Ohio State University acceptance graph

Somewhere in Toledo, Ohio there was a 3-year varsity letterman in both football and baseball who was a runner up for Homecoming king, and who made his high school's honor roll and scored a 26 on his ACT. He grew up a diehard Ohio State Buckeyes fan and dreamed of being the first in his family to attend college in Columbus. His name was Luke.

He was shocked when he walked down his gravel driveway on a cold winter morning last December to open his mailbox and see a rejection letter from the OSU admissions office. Somehow he would not be admitted into his dream school. He would not be in the Buckeye's class of 2019. The money that his grandfather had left him for college and that his parents had been saving for the past 15 years would instead go to his second choice - Bowling Green. He scratched his head and realized that he didn't even own a Bowling Green hat or t-shirt!

Now Luke would never know it, but in his place, the Ohio State University decided to give a full scholarship to Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who couldn't name a single member of the 2002 Buckeye's national championship team. Who couldn't recite a single line from the University's fight song. Who never skipped a junior high class (risking detention) to watch a Buckeye NCAA tournament game in the janitor's office on his dad's Sony Watchman TV, who had never made the 3-hour drive to take a moonlight walk across the beautiful campus and dream about the memories that he'd make there in just a few years' time, using next week's date money to refill his father's truck on the drive back home.