> I don't think anything prevents rampant cheating by American students The system prevents it. Cheating has consequences at lower levels of American schools.

> I don't think anything prevents rampant cheating by American students The system prevents it. Cheating has consequences at lower levels of American schools. In China, for the most part, it doesn't. Gifts buy good grades. The whole idea of getting into a good school based on your merits is subverted. The documentary Education, Education, about private colleges within China, shows what happens to poor families with this mindset [1]. They end up paying for schools that aren't really that good, and then they become part of what's become known as the Ant Tribe (蚁族), > Lian Si (廉思), then a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University, coined the term "ant tribe" to draw a comparison between the lives of these college graduates and ants: "They share every similarity with ants. They live in colonies in cramped areas. They're intelligent and hardworking, yet anonymous and underpaid." [2] The same thing happens in for-profit universities in the US. The film College, Inc documents this [3]. The degree of cheating by Asians is out of control. The entire SAT is being published. See the 3 minute video "Reused and Abused: How the test-prep industry games the SAT" [4] [1] https://youtu.be/BP61LwODTnY https://youtu.be/BP61LwODTnY [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_tribe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_tribe [3] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/collegeinc/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/collegeinc/ [4] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/#video-SAT http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s...