> You'd think if someone scored low on TOEFL and SAT English, but their essays were a literature work of art..it would raise red flags.

Nah - university is full of people who desperately want standardized tests to be worthless.

I'm not sure if this is a serious comment, but I'd think professors generally aren't in a position to know their students' standardized test scores (never mind whether they'd care).

Often these platform ask what grade you’d like the work performed to. You can pay for Bs if you’re worried about being caught.

This was largely a technical university. I also doubt that the hired students were getting top scores. That often was not the goal, for those privaledged kids, getting a foreign degree almost certainly guaranteed a cushy job back home. The grades didn't matter too much.

In my country universities get money for foreign students. In fact more than they get for local students from the government. This is also the reason why universities switched to English in the 1990s.

Yes long term this can damage your reputation but in capitalism nobody cares.