As a Chinese student, I find myself really difficult to accept Mr. Linxiao Yu’s comment about Chinese Admission Fraud. In Thursday’s Daily, he claimed he had heard people “go through illegal approach to get high score” on the Graduate Record Examination and making fake documents. While it is possibly true, I find his comment irresponsible in many ways. Most universities in China are very responsible and discipline when they issue the official copies of transcript. Simply making a conviction by the story he heard is unbelievable. Unless proven true, these rumors should not be taking full credit and used as evidence of fraud. The GRE score fraud is even more like storytelling. The Graduate Record Examination is given by the Educational Test Service of the United States, the exact same authorized agency that gives standard tests such as the SAT, ACT and TOEFL. The rules and regulations for such tests are very strict. They all have various ways to prevent cheating and harsh penalties for exam fraud. Having being in the processes, I do not think anybody will be able to cheat on these exams easily, not saying getting the exam questions prior to the exam. The credibility of the test should not be taken down only because many international students took the exam overseas. The rules and regulations are exactly same everywhere; that is part of the definition of standard test. The part I found most disturbing is his words that “99 percent of the Chinese students here … deserve the admission here.” Though I agree these rumors will have a negative effect on Chinese students, I strongly believe all international students deserve full respect and credibility for their hard work. They were all admitted by Iowa State after all those thorough investigations conducted by the trained evaluators in the Office of Admission, proven that their values are fully recognized by Iowa State.Penglai Perry Li

Freshman

Electrical Engineering