When do we ever graduate from celebrating young people who simply passed an entrance exam for top US universities?

A country girl from rural area of Japan attained a goal to enter Ivy League university.  

This can still become a news in media and all the sudden she is in a center of massive PR opportunity.  
This is where we are in Japan.  

To this day we are still celebrating entrances of students entering highly esteemed US educational institutions.  

Not that he/she has achieved something for the public like, starting a business/NPO organization, but just simply gaining entrance to best schools in US.   

This is still the level we are at.  

I am not sure if this is a universal tendency around the world or something very dominantly Japanese, it shows we here in Japan still find difficulties tackling challenges outside the country.  

And almost always we only celebrate people for those accepted by "western", more specifically US schools.  

Am I being too extreme if I say it is a display of our national self-imposed image of being inferior to USA.