UAE Education Consultants Raise ‘red flags’ After the Scandal of US Admissions

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UAE-based educational experts have advised guardians that "no one can guarantee admissions" after a tremendous college entrance embarrassment including affluent guardians hit the US as of late.

The specialists cautioned guardians against searching out "unscrupulous operators" who, through indirect accesses, guarantee a seat for their kids in US colleges in return of the huge amount of cash, which, one expert stated, can add up to Dh200,000 or more.

In the US, experts have charged 50 individuals, including 33 guardians, for contriving to reward, adulterate accreditations and undermine tests to get their students into tip-top colleges in the course of recent years or something like that. As per the experts, around $25 million (Dh91.8 million) in rewards have been paid.

‘Red flags’

Be careful about any educational expert/operator ensuring affirmation, nobody can ensure confirmation.

Rethink paying somebody with 'secret connections' who is requesting cash to utilize their 'influence' for confirmation.

On the off chance that somebody professes to be an 'independent' advisor, request that they set it in motion that they don't get any installment from the college for alluding candidates to that college.

Try not to utilize the administrations of anybody saying they will compose the college application paper for you that is carefully disallowed.

In the wake of the US outrage, two instruction advisors in Dubai encouraged guardians in the UAE to look out for "red flags" when looking for paid direction on their kids' college application process.

Peter Y. Davos, founder and CEO of Hale Education, a consultancy that prepares students for entry into American universities, told Gulf News: “The first thing you need to look out for, which many people do here, by the way, is they ‘guarantee admission’. No one can guarantee admission, period.”

He clarified that confirmations are "always" controlled by different affirmation officers acting collectively or on a dominant part premise.

“So even if you were to go the admissions officer who was responsible for the regional admissions director for the Middle East and give him $1 million, he could not get your kid in.”

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