[takee]

Seriously don't understand the point of this story other than the implied racist undertones. Why is it important to highlight the nationality of the students in the title, when the failure is clearly on the part of the university admissions office for not vetting the student applications/GRE scores etc prior to having them fly in. The nationality just happens to be related to the country where the recruiters looked in. I bet they would have found equally unqualified candidates in any other country, but it's far easier to go to India where just by the way of shear numbers you can swoop in a lot more interested candidates in a much shorter time period.

[blatherard]

It's basically a follow-up to a story from two months ago, which is more in-depth: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/us/recruiting-students-ove...

I guess India is highlighted because most/all of the students were recruited from India?

[bruceb]

Some countries have stricter standards for graduation and against cheating than others. India has lots of cheating. Ask an Indian. Nothing racist about article at all.

Yes there are unqualified students everywhere but clearly some countries will have fewer because of enforcement of standards.

Hell the headline using the word "lured" puts the blame on the univerity/recruiters.