"The biggest victims of this epic alleged scheme, of course, are the higher-caliber students whose prospective tickets to the prestigious colleges were given instead to these teens, whose parents had the savvy and gall to break the rules."
https://t.co/fhM8uLB46U
Even if a node can process hundreds or thousands of tx/sec in a closed simulation, that does not imply that it can support a public blockchain that can process that much.
My Parity node can run >500 tx/sec on my laptop, but Ethereum main chain is only processing 11.5 tx/sec.