Inc. and many other publications featured his success.
Every year, journalists pick up on students who apply to many top colleges and get into them all. Consider this article about a student who went 14 for 14 in getting into top colleges. Journalists in particular like the admitted to every Ivy story line, as you can see here and here and here. The articles appear reliably every year, such that admissions experts like Jim Jump, author of the Ethical College Admissions columns here on Admissions Insider, predicted a week ago that we were about to see another round of them.
None of the articles question the logic of applying to all the Ivies, given how different are such places as Dartmouth College (rural with liberal arts college style) and Columbia University (urban research university).