Want...Around 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from US schools in 2014, according to WholeRen, a Pennsylvania-based education consultancy, cited in the Chengdu News. The most common reasons for the expulsions were academic dishonesty, plagiarism and counterfeit documents, the report said.
Zinch China, a Beijing-based education consultant, said 70% of expelled students had hired someone to write their statement of purpose on the enrollment application, 50% had altered their high school GPA, and 10% had lied about their academic history. These were not necessarily the primary cause for their expulsion, however.
Twenty-three percent of the expelled students were kicked out for cheating, 57.6% were dismissed for low grades and some for breaking US laws, according to WholeRen. Those who broke the law tended to be younger students who claimed to have been unfamiliar with the laws they were breaking, such as using marijuana.
There are currently 300,000 Chinese nationals studying at educational institutions in the United States, said the report.