Statistics on application fraud / general discussion

[wombatsoup]

<p>I recently read this article from the Chronicle about the Chinese student boom, which I’m sure has been discussed elsewhere on this forum: [Chinese</a> Students Prove a Tricky Fit on U.S. Campuses - Global - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Chinese-Students-Prove-a/129628/]Chinese”>http://chronicle.com/article/Chinese-Students-Prove-a/129628/)</p>

<p>I’m wondering if there an American student equivalent to the study in this quote (small sample and unscientific as it may be):</p>

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***** China, a consulting company that advises American colleges and universities about China, last year published a report based on interviews with 250 Beijing high-school students bound for the United States, their parents, and a dozen agents and admissions consultants. The company concluded that 90 percent of Chinese applicants submit false recommendations, 70 percent have other people write their personal essays, 50 percent have forged high-school transcripts, and 10 percent list academic awards and other achievements they did not receive. The “tide of application fraud,” the report predicted, will most likely only worsen as more students go to America.

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<p>I’m mostly looking for some context for these numbers–I can’t imagine similar numbers for domestic applicants, but I don’t have any real context. Does anyone know of a good source for data on this?</p>

<p>This thread could also be general discussion of the article/those stats but I don’t have too much to say about them at the present moment.</p>