果真如此不堪：美国教授的邮件引来热议

正文:“寄托家园”论坛的一张帖子（ 原文出处http://bbs.gter.net/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=565324&extra=page%3D1&page=1）引来热议，原文如下：

“ 更新啦 !美国教授回信 , 第一次收到震撼邮件 ,我该怎么办？ ”

“我给 Vanderbilt University的一个教授写信，告诉他我的基本背景和兴趣，想申请他们学校的研究生，问他有多大可能。他也很认真，回信问我什么时候毕业拿什么学位，将来打算做什么工作。我又回信比较详细的回答这些问题。今早收到他的回信，他先向我介绍了几种途径可以达到我的职业目标。接下来他又写了很长一段，原文如下：

Let me provide some basic results. It is difficult for Chinese students to get into US universities simply because of the level of corruption in China. We find that grades are not reliable - evidently one can buy grades. I have a friend who left Nanjing University because he found that his fellow professors were selling grades. You also cannot trust test scores - evidently you can have somebody else take a test for you. This means that at many places, including Vanderbilt, we only admit Chinese students when a faculty member whom we know and trust will recommend the student. My best advice is for you to find a faculty member who knows you and who knows somebody in the US. Use that to get into a US institution. If not in medical physics, then in biophysics which is much easier to do. Once in the US, you can get a masters degree and then transfer to another US university (like Vanderbilt) for a PhD, this could be in () or (). If you get a PhD in () and do really well, you can then go for an internship/retraining program to do (). ”

（美国教授邮件的大意为：他听在中国学习的朋友讲，那里可以花钱买分数的。所以中国学生的分数不可信。对于GRE，TOELF分数也不可信，因为你可以找人去代考。所以在美国很多地方，中国学生只有被我们所熟悉和信任的教授推荐，我们才会要......）
我们的诚信真是到了如此不堪的程度吗？