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[quote=Anonymous]Columbia alum and parent hopping in - Submitting suspect data to USNWR to climb in the rankings is flat out unacceptable. It doesn't matter that college rankings are ridiculous. Providing seemingly unrealistic numbers on class sizes and that 100% of instructors/faculty have PhDs seems like deceiving potential students/families to me. Back in my day, almost all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization classes (the Core seminars that are at the heart of the Columbia experience) were taught by permanent faculty. For my DC, almost half of those classes are taught by adjuncts. This is a direct consequence of growing the student body without growing the humanities faculty headcount. It's not an accident that both the College dean and the University president are retiring and the next leaders are stuck with fixing the problem.

I don't think there's a silver lining to this scandal, but I don't think it is entirely a bad thing if Columbia becomes a little less attractive. Columbia is unmatched for students who really want to be in New York City, think learning the Western canon is a necessary part of criticizing it, and are motivated by the scholarship of the exceptional professors. Students who just want to attend an Ivy (it's only an athletic conference) should just apply to the others. Future M&A bankers, big law partners, and McKinsey consultants have plenty of other colleges to punch their tickets. 
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