Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by sytelus on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:44PM
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I think you are probably talking about wealthy students who gets into Ivy league through $2M+ donations. Vast majority of foreign students are too finance constrained even to survive with basic needs, let alone go shopping for paid cheating.
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Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:05AM
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> Vast majority of foreign students are too finance constrained even to survive with basic needs, let alone go shopping for paid cheating.
Where did you get this idea? Foreign students are overwhelmingly paying the foreign student tuition (much higher than domestic tuition) without receiving any financial aid.
Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by learc83 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:08AM
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Exactly. Foreign students also have to prove they can support themselves (on top of paying full price for tuition) before they're even allowed in. The majority of them are pretty well off.
Re:YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:56PM
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> I think you are probably talking about wealthy students who gets into Ivy league through $2M+ donations
The BBC article to which this thread is attached talks of a company advertising "essay[s]...starting at just $18.00 per page" [1]. Furthermore, the documented frequencies of foreign students cheating is too large to explain with solely income discrepancy.