No students from China in MIT's EA this year

[Anonymous]

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2179977/chinese-students-miss-out-early-places-mit-whats-blame-change

Interesting story form Hong Kong's SCMP.

The prestigious college offered early admission to more than 700 students from around the world but none came from Chinese schools. There were five Chinese nationals offered EA but they were studying at US schools.

[Anonymous]

How did the author even get such information? Did MIT release that?

Did the author consider the well-known rampant ACT/SAT cheating internationally, which calls into question an Asian international applicant's high test scores?

[Anonymous]

My hunch is that MIT is well-aware of how foreign nationals fare at their institution (country by country), and that the ones admitted in the past haven’t done particularly well.

[Anonymous]

Good

[Anonymous]

I agree it’s good. It was always a rigged system, with agents in China packaging applicants in exchange for big money from parents, and universities turning a blind eye because they loved all the money from full-pay international students. A better solution would be to require applicants to come to the US to take their SATs and sit for an in-person English exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree it’s good. It was always a rigged system, with agents in China packaging applicants in exchange for big money from parents, and universities turning a blind eye because they loved all the money from full-pay international students. A better solution would be to require applicants to come to the US to take their SATs and sit for an in-person English exam.

A New York Times analysis concluded 90% of Chinese applications include fraudulent elements: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1074544?ec_carp=8606710182779242733

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree it’s good. It was always a rigged system, with agents in China packaging applicants in exchange for big money from parents, and universities turning a blind eye because they loved all the money from full-pay international students. A better solution would be to require applicants to come to the US to take their SATs and sit for an in-person English exam.

A New York Times analysis concluded 90% of Chinese applications include fraudulent elements: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1074544?ec_carp=8606710182779242733

I'm sure the colleges who go out of their way to accept these full pay students are "shocked" "shocked" to find there's been cheating going.

[Anonymous]

Any word on how DMV schools did on MIT Early applications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree it’s good. It was always a rigged system, with agents in China packaging applicants in exchange for big money from parents, and universities turning a blind eye because they loved all the money from full-pay international students. A better solution would be to require applicants to come to the US to take their SATs and sit for an in-person English exam.

LOL. MIT can fill it’s class with as many full pay domestic students as it wants. And+/-7 kids will make no difference for your kid.

In any case, I’m familiar with the mit undergraduate population, and the HK students aren’t the ones worried about failing first term classes.

[Anonymous]

Any word on how many DMV students have applied to Tsinghua?

[Anonymous]

More and more of the top Chinese students are at US boarding schools for high school...

[Anonymous]

The only DMV school that does well with MIT admissions is TJ with 10-20 kids admitted every year. I don’t have stats on the Montgomery Blair magnet but I doubt they do as well as TJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any word on how DMV schools did on MIT Early applications?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree it’s good. It was always a rigged system, with agents in China packaging applicants in exchange for big money from parents, and universities turning a blind eye because they loved all the money from full-pay international students. A better solution would be to require applicants to come to the US to take their SATs and sit for an in-person English exam.

A New York Times analysis concluded 90% of Chinese applications include fraudulent elements: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1074544?ec_carp=8606710182779242733

I'm sure the colleges who go out of their way to accept these full pay students are "shocked" "shocked" to find there's been cheating going.

Lets just say cheating is well known in certain circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only DMV school that does well with MIT admissions is TJ with 10-20 kids admitted every year. I don’t have stats on the Montgomery Blair magnet but I doubt they do as well as TJ

11 accepted last year from Blair, which only has 100 students in the magnet program, unlike TJ, which is a whole magnet school.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/september-october-2018/where-bethesda-area-high-school-grads-applied-to-college/