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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Game" is a loaded word, but it's undeniable that schools care about USNEWS - a lot.  [/quote]

Gaming is the right word for this situation.  Consider the following quotes from the article:

"We have walked the fine line between illegal, unethical, and really interesting," said Clemson's former institutional researcher, Catherine Watt, who left the university in 2013,  at a conference in 2009, according to Inside Higher Ed. Some might argue that they crossed that line a long time ago. But Clemson rose from 38th among public universities in 2001 to 21st last year.

". College admissions officers themselves suspect the dishonesty is more widespread: 91 percent said in a survey conducted by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed that other colleges (although not their own, of course) were probably lying too.

"It should be no surprise that colleges lie and cheat and game the system. That's not necessarily a reason the rankings shouldn't exist. If we got rid of programs because they could be gamed, we'd have no financial aid to attend college, no college admissions process — in fact, no social safety net.

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