Message from egoebel

[Anonymous]

Rob Schmitz reported on the trend of Chinese parents seeking American college educations for their children. "Too qualified to be true." He says 130,000 Chinese students study in the U.S. Colleges welcome the international students' tuition payments, their diversity, and hard work. What Marketplace radio program has discovered, however, is that a lot of these students had help in China falsifying their college entrance applications. Apparently, for $6,000, a Chinese company can just about guarantee students acceptances in US colleges. Transcripts are fudged; personal essays are forged. Having just dealt with some falsifying of essays in my 12th grade senior class in Los Angeles, I'm not surprised by any pattern of shifty practices to achieve academic glory. But, apparently, there's a business model going on in China that colleges need to be aware of.
edited by egoebel on 4/27/2012