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[quote=Anonymous]I don't believe it.

Here's why:

I recently taught at an international school in a highly corrupt developing country.  The students and their parents cheated and lied like nothing I have ever seen, and college applications were crazy.  The majority of parents paid local "college counsellor" agents to write their kids' college application essays for them, and to fabricate crazy profiles and activities for them.  For example, kids who had gotten 2s on the AP Lang/Lit exams suddenly wrote novels and secured "literary agents" during the summer between junior and senior year, and the "college counsellors" got local media to interview the "authors" so there was Googleable material to back up the fake books (three out of about fifty graduating seniors had fake books written and publicized for them).  Other students founded charities and built libraries in rural villages, which they suddenly claimed (and got paid publicity for) they had been working on for years.

I was SHOCKED that these kids actually got into great colleges.  One of the girls whose parents paid someone to write and publicise a fake book for her got into Berkeley this year.

These kids lie and cheat in high school more than any students I have had anywhere else.  And their AP scores are abyssmal (though admin changes their grades to whatever the rich and powerful parents demand, you can't argue with a string of 2s, right?).

College admissions teams know that exactly what the "college counsellors" do in that region of the world, and they must surely know that the books and charity work are fake.  The application packages from these kids are so similar, so exaggerated, and so formulaic.  Yet they are accepted into US colleges--sometimes Ivies--every year.

But of course they are full pay.

So this is how I know the system is rigged and college admissions are corrupt to a great extent.  [/quote]

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