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Reply to "If the colleges are all lying about their stats, why does anyone care about rankings?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some colleges "lie", but what many do is manipulate it within the rules. An example of this is Northeaster, which accepts less qualified students for spring entry (putting them on one of their cooperative education internships to start). They have had approval from USNews to omit these students (as well as international students who do not have to submit SAT/ACT). In this way, they raised their standardized scores significantly. Another example is the programs schools have put in place to increase the number of applications, even if the students aren't actually qualified.[/quote] The schools that manipulated acceptance rate got burned when US News changed the methodology. At this moment, schools are plotting ways to get more Pell Grants recipients on board.[/quote]
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