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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Case Western just early-admitted 23 students who were clients of one of the pay-for-play research companies. Stanford accepted 11. Most are from China. Agreed that some AOs definitely do not see through this . . .[/quote]

Isn't it safe to say that the person who would go after this kind of work is also someone who is going after the big program, grades, and ECs that also look good on an application? it doesn't make sense to assume the person was a mediocre student who was accepted JUST because they published an article. [/quote]

Hard to tell...cheating of all kinds is so rampant in China that you have no idea who will actually show up at the college.  The same students could have paid someone else to take the SAT/ACT, paid someone else to write their college essays and listed all manor of ECs that are impossible to verify.

This is why kids are always looking sideways at the kid from China that can barely speak or understand any English.[/quote]

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