This interesting profile of an illegal immigrant attending college does a great job showing the almost insurmountable obstacles to her success -- a story that exemplifies enterprising journalism because these kinds of obstacles to higher education are rarely brought to public view.

Of course UCLA isn't supposed to be doing ethnic preferences but everyone knows that they do. They aren't doing anyone a favor letting in poorly qualified students. Such students need to go to community college and state universities. They can transfer to UCLA is they measure up. She is in the top 20% of her high school class but University of CA is supposed to draw from the upper 12% of the academic talent pool. Many kids with better qualifications but without the sense to lie about race and ethnic identity are rejected by UCLA. None of this relevant information is mentioned.

I found this very interesting, but I do tend to like these "day in the life" personal stories that provide for discussion of bigger issues.