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Also, someone mentions lengthy questionnaires- there is so much more worthy material needing attention I'm sure many schools didn't bother with this, I wonder what their response rate was.
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Templeton explains how they handle this:
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...We recognized that some exemplary programs would not receive or return a nomination form to us. Therefore, the Foundation asked the Institute on College Student Values at Florida State University, under the direction of Dr. Jon Dalton, to conduct an exhaustive and comprehensive proactive search to identify additional exemplary programs, presidents, and institutions. Between the nomination process and this proactive search, the researchers at the Institute on College Student Values reviewed more than 2,500 programs and 1,000 institutions.
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<p>If you don't think the results are valid, it certainly can't be blamed on not evaluating & considering enough schools.</p>