That article reads as extremely smug and glib.

It would be more palatable if it said something along the lines of "MIT is a great school, but there are plenty of great schools and if you honestly do your best then you'll probably succeed at one of them." Instead it never questions whether MIT is worth the hype or whether admittance is a crapshoot. And the line about "we rejected someone who built a frikin nuclear reactor" is extremely pretentious and self serving.

I applied to MIT for undergrad and I didn't get in, and I'm fine with that because there are plenty of other great schools.