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).
At my university we can see any student's transcript including scores through our faculty portal. But you're right, generally no one cares to look these things up.
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.
In France since the 1990" roughly one third of the university students are foreigners with a higher proportion in PhD studies (41%) than in bachelor studies (11%) [0].
