Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Half of the value I got out of college was living with a diverse set of people from all over the country and the world. They really forced me to challenge some of my assumptions. I'd hate to lose that for my kid.
I'm also not so sure that it will be so easy to get around the problem of identifying test takers. This is particularly true for students taking those on-line courses abroad. China has consulting firms that basically falsify a student's grades and hire TOEFL test takers for them in order to get them into US universities. Bribing a proctor in a low income country will be very easy, and probably not that much harder in the US.
If what you describe was pervasive in China, you'd expect that the students who game to the US would struggle once they got here, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Chinese students do very well on average. So well in fact that some schools are applying quotas.
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