Xiao Jingdong: There are mature fundraising system in American prestigious schools, but there are few fundraising activities in China.Chinese rich people not only appear utilitarian, but also easily deceived through intermediary donations.
Recently, American media reported that among the prestigious school enrollment scandals announced by the FBI before, a girl named Zhao, who spent 6.5 million US dollars, was accepted by Stanford University through the assistance of the middleman Singh.The amount is large and involved in prestigious schools, causing a greater response in Chinese society.
In response to this, Mother Zhao issued a statement through a lawyer, and three of them were: one was that Zhao Mu said that she was not familiar with the admission procedure of American universities, and for this reason, Singh was found through the recommendation of third parties.Singh has its own charitable foundation. This foundation is stated as a non -profit fund established with a large scale, justice, and the purpose of benefiting the education community.Until he was misleading, his generosity was used, and his daughter became a victim of the fraud.
It was reported before that the girl had been fired by Stanford. The statement did not mention this, but it was mentioned that Zhao and the girl were shocked and uneasy about what happened, and had hired a lawyer to deal with the incident.
Father Zhao was engaged in medicine in China and was rich in family.In the rich class of Chinese, it is a common thing to hire financial consultants to take care of family wealth.In family wealth processing, global layout strategies are often adopted.To make a straightforwardness, not to put all eggs in a basket, and mostly purchase fixed assets and financial products abroad for asset security needs.Children's education is an important part of global financial planning, because more than 70 % of Chinese immigrants are for children's education.
To this end, these third -party financial advisory agencies assisting the family wealth of Chinese rich people will also assist customers to plan their children's education.The children of Chinese rich people often choose the way to study in high schools abroad. Even in domestic high school, they will use foreign status to recruit international or international schools that only recruit foreign children and children.
Since the rich class of Chinese people often do not understand the educational situation of the West, professional institutions are needed to provide professional services in their education.This is why the statement mentioned in the reason why it was introduced through third -party institutions.
Famous American schools are basically private schools. For this reason, based on the needs of school finances, they will indeed provide some convenience for the rich class children who are generous.But this degree is not transparent and is a more delicate game process.Nowadays, the financial resources of famous American schools are strong. The use of donations with entrance places is too naked and unnecessary. It is not so easy to go directly to the famous school by donating to the famous school.
Even if you donate to the school, there are many doors of American schools. Generally, it is difficult for Americans to understand, let alone the Chinese.In this way, there is information asymmetry in the middle, which is also easy to breed speculation or even illegal acts.Judging from the US media reports, China's rich families are undoubtedly the most money, and in other words, they are also the most powerful.
Once a Chinese customer recommended by the financial institution of the rich in China, studying agencies such as Singh naturally know the payment capacity of Chinese rich people.In this process, if you use the name of donation but essentially bribery, you can obtain huge profits.
The reason why Stanford University was expelled from the girl surnamed Zhao was because of the forgery of the archives of sailing athletes, and this file was considered by the prosecutor to be a decisive factor for its final admission by Stanford University.Applications in famous American universities require students to submit materials by themselves. The information of sailing athletes is not true, but they are submitted, which may be misled, but the fraud is nailing on the board.Stanford was expelled from the student.
Zhao's parents spent $ 6.5 million, but his daughter was eventually fired by Stanford, making people's wealth.According to the academic achievements of girls named Zhao and the background of the high school, they can also apply for universities above the U.S. TOP30 according to the conventional route.At present, this ending is really difficult to accept, and the Zhao family will undoubtedly lose money in this process.At the same time, Stanford University is undoubtedly a victim.On the one hand, a possible large donation was intercepted, and on the other hand, the school's enrollment internal management had problems and the reputation was damaged.
The best universities in China are mainly public, supporting financial support, and have a stable and rich source of wealth.Even the once -influential hoped project, after the popularity of compulsory education in the 9 -year system, gradually became slightly micro.This has caused Chinese schools to have no strong needs in education donations. Even the emerging private international schools mainly depend on tuition fees rather than donation support.Chinese society does not form a donation atmosphere and habit, and lacks a mature operating system.
But unfortunately, there is a willingness to provide a large amount of donations in the rich class of Chinese, and it also needs channels that communicate directly with the school.However, it seems that the willingness to donate from China does not seem to pay attention to it, and lacks corresponding fundraising activities and channels.
The principal of American prestigious universities has a very important task to raise funds, and the primary target of fundraising is alumni. Generally, more than 30 % of alumni will provide donations, which can provide relatively stable financial resources for prestigious schools.Provide a certain reasons for providing some preferential treatment in school.
China's international education has only been greatly developed around 2010. The number of graduates of famous American universities in China is very small, and graduates have a short time to work, and it is difficult to provide a large amount of donations.To this end, we can see that there are very few fundraising activities implemented by famous American universities in China.
Because there is no mature operating system and experience, if the rich class in China wants to obtain the children's admission to admission through donation, it can only wait until the intervention of the study abroad service institution, and it is often not far from the application time at this time.For this reason, donations in this case will appear very utilitarian, and it is easy to attract criticism or coincidence.
What is even more troublesome is that because the donation system for prestigious American schools is not understood, Chinese donors must seek help from third parties.In this process, if the third -party motivation is impure, Chinese donors are easily deceived.This phenomenon has long been learned from the previous car.Ten years ago, Koda's high -risk financial products once brought many Chinese wealthy families for bankruptcy and heavy losses.These victims do not understand the high risk of Koda products. Based on the trust of third -party institutions, they lack awareness of prevention.Under the temptation of seeking profits, third -party agencies induce customers to buy these high -risk products.And now international education, I believe that the experience of the Zhao family is not a case.
The occurrence of scandal scandals in American prestigious schools, both in the prestigious school and student families, are both defeated.Of course, I also hope that this incident can become an opportunity. Famous American schools can consider establishing a smooth donation channel.Because there are very few alumni in China in China, it is difficult to become the main body of donations. More donors should be rich people with enthusiastic education.
This is a successful case in China.China Changshu World United College is high in tuition, but through the annual fundraising activities, it provides scholarships for children of Hanmen and provides opportunities for studying.Globally, UWC's Davis Peace Project Fund has helped many Hanmen children to complete university studies.
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