I'm currently a graduate student at an Ivy League uni and I can 100% confirm this is common. In my cohort - which has 32 Chinese internationals out of 53 admitted students - there are tons of foreign students that shouldn't be there. I often would see students having to actively translate via Google Translate just to understand a basic lecture. I'd also see the Chinese students cheat off of each other and copy a ton of their coding from students that sat near them. If they can't understand English and can't "succeed" without cheating then why are they here? Why did the rest of us have to work our asses off for them to just waltz in? Bullshit!
They're doing their thing, the institution is doing its thing and both are happy with the arrangement.
You - the tangentially concerned party - on the other side are complaining based on a feeling of injustice that stems from a Disney-esque model of reality.
So what is the lesson here? To understand how the world works and adjust accordingly in order to meet your goals.
I'm currently a graduate student at an Ivy League uni and I can 100% confirm this is common. In my cohort - which has 32 Chinese internationals out of 53 admitted students - there are tons of foreign students that shouldn't be there. I often would see students having to actively translate via Google Translate just to understand a basic lecture. I'd also see the Chinese students cheat off of each other and copy a ton of their coding from students that sat near them. If they can't understand English and can't "succeed" without cheating then why are they here? Why did the rest of us have to work our asses off for them to just waltz in? Bullshit!
They're doing their thing, the institution is doing its thing and both are happy with the arrangement.
You - the tangentially concerned party - on the other side are complaining based on a feeling of injustice that stems from a Disney-esque model of reality.
So what is the lesson here? To understand how the world works and adjust accordingly in order to meet your goals.