[socalstanfan1]

This type of thing is not limited to sports. China has an industry of fixers for getting kids into US colleges:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/arc...ns/384212/

Yep, yep...I'm actually working in China in education, and see this literally every day. The unethical agencies, as well as out-and-out cheating, has become a brobdingnagian issue with cheating scandals rocking the SAT, to the point where the scores of all Chinese students at a testing center in China had their scores invalidated.  There is, of course, brobdingnagian money involved, so this doesn't seem like anything that will be resolved any time soon, and many American universities are so anxious to accept international students who often pay roughly twice as much tuition as American students, that they turn a blind eye to the situation. In looking over the Atlantic article, I would say that one thing the author underestimates is the amount of grades doctored by schools in China, to the point that most students applying to schools in the United States are reporting GPAs close to 4.0 (and much of this fixing of grades is being done by the school itself, so there is no way to determine an A actually earned, and an A just granted); the result will be, ultimately, that American Universities fall back on the SAT and TOEFL scores as the only reasonably reliable means of distinguishing the level of students. But, as mentioned above, the College Board is finding it increasingly difficult to secure its own test centers in Asia.  A crazy situation, indeed.

[socalstanfan1]

This type of thing is not limited to sports. China has an industry of fixers for getting kids into US colleges:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/arc...ns/384212/

Yep, yep...I'm actually working in China in education, and see this literally every day. The unethical agencies, as well as out-and-out cheating, has become a brobdingnagian issue with cheating scandals rocking the SAT, to the point where the scores of all Chinese students at a testing center in China had their scores invalidated.  There is, of course, brobdingnagian money involved, so this doesn't seem like anything that will be resolved any time soon, and many American universities are so anxious to accept international students who often pay roughly twice as much tuition as American students, that they turn a blind eye to the situation. In looking over the Atlantic article, I would say that one thing the author underestimates is the amount of grades doctored by schools in China, to the point that most students applying to schools in the United States are reporting GPAs close to 4.0 (and much of this fixing of grades is being done by the school itself, so there is no way to determine an A actually earned, and an A just granted); the result will be, ultimately, that American Universities fall back on the SAT and TOEFL scores as the only reasonably reliable means of distinguishing the level of students. But, as mentioned above, the College Board is finding it increasingly difficult to secure its own test centers in Asia.  A crazy situation, indeed.