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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's just for law school
Who cares[/quote]
Law schools are only the beginning...

Undergrad administrators at the top schools feel the same way about USNWR.[/quote]

Especially administrators at colleges that were caught submitting fake data to USNWR [/quote]

When the administrators play games with the data everybody suffers.  My university wanted to make it look as though they had more full-time faculty on the undergraduate level so all of the faculty were required to also teach two undergraduate courses every year so that we would count as undergraduate faculty.  We were randomly assigned to teach gateway undergraduate courses that often had nothing to do with our actual specialties or interests.  Most of us lack the sort of expertise that would’ve made us good at this, things like helping students to orient themselves to college, referring students to writing centers in the like if that expertise was required, working with ESL students. All for the sake of letting up a couple of points in the rankings[/quote]

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