Paid Recruiters Are Illegal In US But Fine For Enrolling International Students

Green River Community College, 45 minutes south of Seattle, has no special overseas cachet, no global name recognition — but it has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them recruited by overseas agents who get 15 percent of the $9,732 first-year tuition. In the United States, it is illegal to pay recruiters for each student they bring in — a practice outlawed 20 years ago because of widespread abuse by agents who signed up anyone they could, regardless of academic potential.But the use of commissioned agents to recruit international students remains a highly divisive, hotly debated issue in higher education circles. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/education/smaller-colleges-rely-on-paid-student-recruiters-overseas.html?_r=1