Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
College and University Discussion
Reply to "If the colleges are all lying about their stats, why does anyone care about rankings?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]" No one thinks the colleges actually lie but not listing a couple dozen students who didn't tell them they are withdrawing so that a 96% retention rate becomes 97% and UVa is one point ahead of Michigan, yeah, that kind of stuff happens. It's no different than what you see on pretty much every ad on TV. Stop...you are just making up stuff. UVa is unethical but Michigan is??? Come on... " That was not the poster's point. The point was that colleges, including BOTH UVa AND Michigan, build their reported statistics in ways that make them look good, just like TV ads. The only reason they do this is because lots of crazy people somehow think that going to a school ranked #25 is better than going to the one ranked #35. They then spend ridiculous amounts of money (too often money they don't have) to obtain this imaginary advantage.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
