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In recent years, there have been many adjustments to the admission policy, but no matter how much it changes, it can't stop some "wild roads", and the legend of spending millions to enter a certain head bilingual school and spending millions to enter a certain Ivy League school has been circulating among parents.
This kind of "gray operation" gives people the illusion that "money can solve all problems", whether it is for further study in China or in the application for studying abroad, and this also gives them an opportunity to take advantage of.
Text丨carol Figure |on the Internet.
Spend money to get into a prestigious school
10 million
Recently, Shanghai Jing'an** cracked a fraud case of "handling admission to a prestigious school", and 24 parents were defrauded of more than 10 million yuan. **Pu claimed to have a background in the "Education Bureau", as long as the money is in place, it is easy to enter a famous school, and he also has many successful cases.
After Mr. Liu and Mr. Pu got on the line, the two parties signed an agreement to pay 600,000 yuan for the "admission fee". Until the start of school on September 1 this year, Mr. Liu did not wait for the admission notice, and Mr. Liu found that something was wrong, but Pu had lost contact, and the so-called business consulting company had also been emptied.
Pu only learned after he was arrestedThis person didn't know the Education Bureau or the school leaders at all, and the parents still entered the pool of the normal lottery, and if they got in, they "got the way", and they began to delay on the grounds of system failure, supplemental registration, borrowing first and then transferring
If the parent has a tough attitude and wants to make a big fuss, use the money cheated from the next parent to refund the previous parent's expenses. The reason why it was revealed was because Pu was obsessed with live broadcast rewards, and the "capital chain" was broken.
Judging from the chat records exposed,"Friends introduce a foundation of trust", "A policy is a policy, and a trust relationship is a trust relationship", "If you don't believe it, forget it".etc. are common words, and ** will also pretend to take the initiative to withdraw the deposit. Out of sunk costs and a gamble mentality, the deceived parents did not really insist on returning the money.
Promise to "borrow and transfer", and the first wait is two years
Last year, Mr. Chen in Putuo District reported that he had been defrauded of 950,000 yuan. In 2020, he met Lu, who claimed to have a "way" to enroll, through a friend, and Lu said that he had a "transfer" place in a well-known primary school, so that Mr. Chen's son would first study in the corresponding primary school for one semester, and then enter a prestigious school through transfer. Lu patted his chest and promised to transfer after the winter vacation of the first grade, if it didn't work, he would get a full refund.
As soon as the agreement was signed, 950,000 yuan was paid, but I didn't expect that the wait would be two years, and my son would go to the third grade, and the transfer had not yet been settled. During this period, Mr. Chen did not question or ask for a refund, but Lu always delayed his words, such as claiming an accident, or fighting for a place in the next semester. In the end, there was no delay, and after 100,000 people retreated, the world evaporated.
After Lu was caught, he found that there was another accomplice Cai in this **, Cai is the person in charge of an educational technology company, and has been pretending to be a big man in the industry, claiming that he has rich network resources and has a "way" to operate children to enter various prestigious schools. After defrauding 950,000 yuan, Cai shared 550,000 yuan and Lu shared 400,000 yuan. By the time the two were brought to justice, the money had been squandered to the point where there was very little left.
The big hole of "guaranteed admission" in the application for studying abroad
I thought it was a guarantee, but it was actually the fuse for dropping out
Study abroad is a long-standing gray industry, and agents often charge very high fees, and if you can't be admitted, you will get a full refund. On Xiaohongshu, you can even occasionally brush some advertising words similar to "enter Harvard with low GPA". But is there really such a good thing?Many intermediaries are likely to take risks - material fraud, admission can be had, but they can't control what happens next.
In the past few years, ** has reported several news of American universities expelling Chinese students, among which the more typical ones areIn 2018, NYU Stony Brook expelled at least seven Chinese students
These students apply to universities through institutions such as "Imperial Education" in New York, USA, and "Deren Education" in ChinaThe agent claims to have a relationship within the university, and students can get admission places through donations. As everyone knows, in fact, when applying, the agent will change the student's GPA from 30 read 37。
The student then appealed, saying that he didn't know, that he had never cheated in high school and college, but it didn't work, and the school didn't believe you. Once the fraud is discovered, it is basically expelled, and there is no room for recovery.
Some students were notified by the school that their application materials were falsified and expelled after half a year after entering Columbia UniversityThere are also students who spent $45,000 to buy a graduate student enrollment service and get admission to Boston University for a master's degreeBoston University sends the student's transcript to Stony Brook University for verification, found to be fake, as a result, the master's offer fell through, and he was expelled from Stony Brook University.
Overseas undergraduate experience out of thin air
There are also some agents who can invent mysterious overseas experiences, and you may have never been abroad, but you have a bachelor's degree.
The advertisement is under the name of "zero conditions, IELTS-free, and pre-university direct admission to the world's top schools", and the institution claims that there are partner universities overseas that can register for academic qualifications, and pretends to have four years of overseas study experience, so English is also exempted, and students only need to wait to receive the offer. And this bachelor's degree is automatically invalid after graduating with a master's degree.
Background improvement such as scientific research projects can also be sold on the head of a sheep, and dog meat packagingThe institution claims to have the resources of scientific research teachers of the Ivy League school, or the resources of "former admissions officers" to help with the operation and submission of materials, and there is a long list of avatars and job backgrounds on the official website, which also looks quite bluffing.
But when a reporter really asked about the so-called "former director of Yale University admissions" by email, this professor was indeed a person, but he had nothing to do with admissions, and his reply to the email stated that "I h**e never held that position, I h**e never been involved in yale university admissions, and this organization has absolutely." nothing to do with me.”
This series of operations seems to be smooth, but if you don't even go out of the country, you will naturally not have visas and entry and exit recordsNo matter how conclusive the intermediary is, ensuring that academic qualifications support background checks, they cannot withstand the random inspection and scrutiny of the school, once the East Window incident happens, they will be ordered to drop out of school.
Through various cases, it is not difficult to find some commonalities:
1. Packaged but vague resources and connections
The most common words are "there are people in the school" and "there are connections", and through various hints and "**'s heart-to-heart understanding", it creates a sense of mystery that cannot be said. It is a gray area that cannot be put on the table to be clearly discussed, and many parents naturally do not get to the bottom of it, so it is difficult to distinguish the true from the fake.
2. Use information to play psychological warfare
When it comes to studying abroad, the number of overseas colleges and universities is vast, and they do not have a deep understanding of the application conditions and logic of various countries, and it is easy to believe in the so-called way and packaging.
3. There is no guarantee in the agreement, it is a gamble
A paper agreement does not have any binding effect on **, and in the case of being deceived, the agreement signed by the two parties also has the same words "refund all fees if it fails", but what is the result?The money is long gone.
Even if ** is punished by the law, the money is wasted. In the case of studying abroad, the intermediary let you successfully enroll in the school, and then the intermediary was withdrawn from the school, and it was none of his business.
Why does the grey industry exist?Because it is true that there are people who enroll in school through connections, donations, etc. In the case of American universities, for example, giving can be said to be an unspoken rule on the table. But for most ordinary families, can they find a way?
Not to mention ordinary families, in the most famous American college admission bribery scandal, there are many local stars and celebrities in the United States who were exposed to try to smash money into the school, and the way they found is that the intermediary bribes the college sports coach, and the sports coach falsifies the materials, and the number of roads is not much different from the domestic intermediary.
The path of bribery in American college admissions summarized by foreign media:
Falsification of test results and falsification of sports resumes.
Everyone yearns for prestigious schools, but by taking shortcuts, believing that resources and connections can handle everything, it is also a landmine for yourself. If you really enter a prestigious school or a certain circle of yearning, is the mismatch sense of disparity harmful to the child?Looking back, what do you want your child to gain after all?