The college admissions scandal ripping through America’s higher-education system allegedly found its biggest clients in China, The Wall Street Journal reports. Families from China allegedly paid far more than almost all of their domestic counterparts. One Chinese family allegedly paid $6.5 million to William “Rick” Singer, the California-based college counselor who masterminded the scheme, in order for their child to be admitted to a top-tier university. Many of the U.S.-based parents paid a mere $250,000 to $400,000 for Singer’s illegal admissions services. More and more Chinese families are bringing their children to the U.S. to attend high school with the goal of seamlessly applying to American universities. Colleges sometimes scrutinize foreign agents hired to coordinate international applications but apply less scrutiny to U.S.-based college counselors, such as Singer.
The College Cheating Scandal's biggest clients were reportedly from China
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 27, 2019 9:08 AM |
Say what you will but thanks to our President we were able to bust this up.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 27, 2019 2:56 AM |
Are you kidding, R2? Do you know how your President got into Wharton? How Kushner got into Harvard? Hint - it wasn't their grades.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 27, 2019 3:01 AM |
I thought the Chinese are supposed to be super-smart.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 27, 2019 3:05 AM |
I’m okay with the super wealthy Chinese being fleeced.
The collateral damage are the universities reputations. There’s always been the rich buying their way into prestigious universities but this scandal seems to be a lot bigger and wider spread.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 27, 2019 3:11 AM |
Sum Ting Wong
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 27, 2019 3:22 AM |
LOL, r6.
I had a good friend who went to Parsons back in like 1990 and she complained about her wealthy Korean classmates who were untalented and very stupid.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 27, 2019 3:34 AM |
So how did Trump get into Penn? His parents weren't that well connected educationally. Just sent a check? Was Wharton respected back then?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 27, 2019 3:39 AM |
Tell your friend to try engineering school and med school. The Chinese (foreign students not Chinese-Americans) students band together and cheat all the way through on every assignment and every exam. It’s rampant.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 27, 2019 3:40 AM |
Our local Canadian university brags about all its foreign students. They're charged double the tuition, and they get in with very sketchy English speaking/writing skills. In the masters program I took, they made sure to mix in the foreign students with the English-speaking ones. Guess who ended up doing all the work in the groups (hint: it wasn't the ones who couldn't speak or write English).
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 27, 2019 3:49 AM |
Do these kids attending high school here have green cards? Is there a non-immigrant visa for this?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 27, 2019 3:49 AM |
I can see why universities would want to admit talented international students, but with the theft of intellectual property a known risk, why do universities take the risk in highly valuable research fields/labs?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 27, 2019 3:53 AM |
Cut it out, R2. That investigation dates back to 2010.
Geez, I'm forgetting--who was President in 2010? Mmmm, it's on the tip of my tongue.....
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 27, 2019 4:12 AM |
[quote]Geez, I'm forgetting--who was President in 2010? Mmmm, it's on the tip of my tongue.....
It was that guy from Chicago who I mentored and helped in the senate only to have him backstab me so I had to run against the current buffoon and lose in the most humiliating way possible.
Now Huma and I will have our wine and turn in for the evening.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 27, 2019 6:59 AM |
R10: look at it this way - the one who does the most work ends up learning the most too.
Hard work will always be rewarded, especially in the long run.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 27, 2019 9:08 AM |