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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a way of cheating in the USNWR rankings. The stats for the spring admits don’t count towards average GPA etc. College administrator here. University of Florida did something where low stats kids start online to make the university stats look better[/quote]

It is not, Mr. College Administrator. It is a way to maximize enrollment and maximize revenue. A lot of kids graduate/drop out between fall and spring semester. Makes a perfect sense to do it. [/quote]

Nope. You are wrong. Colleges are doing it to avoid reporting the stats of certain kids, like legacies. It’s all about gaming USNWR [/quote]

Proof? [/quote]
NP. The most famous case of this is Northeastern. See this article from 2014, "How to Game the College Rankings"
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/

[quote]Aoun also began using spring enrollment to his advantage. In 2007 the school introduced N.U.in, a program that invites students with lower grades and SAT scores to spend their first semester abroad and begin their on-campus experience in the spring. U.S. News does not collect data for spring entrants, so those students’ lower grades and scores are excluded from the rankings. Editor Brian Kelly explains that U.S. News doesn’t require spring data because the federal government doesn’t either, but he concedes, “It’s possible that is a gaming window.”[/quote][/quote]

That doesn't prove it though. Causation and correlation.[/quote]

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