COMMENT | It looks like Edward Wong and his failure to get into the university and a bachelor’s degree of his choice is now a hot discussion in the media and by those in the political sphere.

Getting straight A's and a CGPA of 4.0 in his STPM examinations, he was given only his fifth choice under the centralised public university admissions system (UPU) application.

To be fair, Wong (above) didn’t ask for the limelight. He just applied for university, got his alternative choice, and somehow ended up being paraded around as Malaysia’s poster child for injustice.

And all because of that magical word: meritocracy, which is...