<p>By a ‘real’ accreditation organization that is - not a sham outfit like the one that’s run by the same people who run the particular ‘school’."</p>
<p>It was good enough for Rand Paul’s optometry accreditation.</p>
<p>In India (where I am now), there are entire public school classes where the teachers never show up (but then set themselves up as private tutors during school hours). There are also educational “hostels” where headmasters collect funds for sham students (my cousin, who is assistant director for Tamil education in secondary schools, told me about one she visited just this morning.) </p>
<p>Those who want good schools know how to find them. In India, it is quite cutthroat, with universities like IIT being far more difficult to get into than Harvard, and neither money nor family connections nor unusual ECs are going to help.</p>