Foreign Asian students cheat like mad on college apps

Mind elaborating? I'm curious to see what you mean by that.

Admissions offices at good schools say it every year: most of our applicants are qualified, but we can't admit that many. Aside from cheating=immoral, the reason why you shouldn't cheat on your admissions is that being admitted is supposed to reflect your fitness for the academic program. If you're a lousy student and cheat your way into Harvard, presumably you'll fail out anyway. But to the extent succeeding at admissions is not the same as succeeding at the academic program, that's not a concern. There are more qualified students each year, but the best schools in the country largely aren't expanding their class sizes, certainly not at the same pace.

It's actually a very weird inversion: the best schools make every effort to keep everyone in, to have a really high retention rate. So even when admissions screws up and admits people who actually aren't able to do the work, they'll make sure those kids get through. A lot of state schools are exactly the opposite, their good programs are designed to push out the bad candidates and retain only the good ones, starting class size could be twice as big as the eventual graduating class.

So I'm saying part of the incentive to cheat has arisen because of the magnitude that the admissions process has detached from selecting the most fit applicants - and it continues to get worse. If you're amoral, you basically should be cheating your way into the best school you can successfully graduate from.