<p>Can and do schools lie about stats published on a website.
I think its rediculous and dosnt happen but its an interesting thought.
One thing is to exagerate and make admissions seem hard etc.. another is to just blatantly make up numbers.</p>
<p>I believe the numbers required for the Common Data set are set by federal regulation and are subject to being audited.</p>
<p>I doubt they are audited. to begin with its voluntary to fill one out. not all schools fill it out.</p>
<p>Hmmm...I found some information on UMiami here <a href="http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,5031-1;5028-3,00.html%5B/url%5D">http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,5031-1;5028-3,00.html</a> but not all the information usually in the common data set. Usually you can find this listed under Institutional Studies or something like that.</p>
<p>I doubt a college would fake stats, but they can and sometimes do post misleading stats. There can be quite a difference between the stats of admitted and matriculated students, and colleges often post one or the other without specifying.</p>
<p>Exactly, A college wont blatantly lie to its students about their stats.
What many colleges do is they will always make admissions seem harder than what it actually is.
Eitherway, the average stats sort of set an idea of where u should be more a less to be admitted. if a school says their averages are from 3.8-4.1 then u should be near that range because Colleges do guide themselves by those ranges.</p>
<p>Some schools also leave out internationals, athletes, and special admits.</p>
<p>The article "Faked Figures Make Fools of Us" in Colleges Unranked has a nice list of "creative" reporting practices compiled by the Dead of Admissions at Grinell. </p>
<p>This time of year usually sees a great example: colleges posts stats for their admitted class even before the waitlist activity (including acceptances from some of the weakest students in the admitted class) has finished. Somehow, these preliminary figures never quite get revised.</p>
<p>They might. I don't know if this is a mistake, but On princetonreview.com, the average GPA for Princeton is a 3.85, while the average for Clemson is a 4.08. If you're talking about average fly fishing GPA, it would make sense, but please........</p>
<p>Mayby Clemson's is Weighted while Princeton's is UW which would make sense? :P</p>
<p>same thing with the UC's... i believe both ucla and ucb post average gpas above a 4.0.</p>
<p>Yea ive seen those rediculously high stats in several schools, even the school I will be going to: UMiami.
I doubt its blatant lying though. Nor do I believe a 4.2 average isnt necesarilly 100% factual. im guessing they post a weighted gpa instead of an UW. right?</p>
<p>Median high school GPA is, probably, one of the most unreliable indicators when posted by colleges - some schools have a GPA out of 5.0...others its impossible to get above a 3.6. Its so un-standardized, because the competitiveness of high schools varies so greatly. However, Class rank in top 10% is a somewhat better measure because atleast it gives a sense of relativity to other students.</p>
<p>I have read in a number of places that when counting the number of applications, schools count incompleted ones in their numbers. So perhaps a school that had 23,000 applications, really only 17,000 that were completed or that met the minimum requirements. However, for that low admit rate, 23,000 makes the school seem a whole lot more selective, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Regarding the UC's: Berkeley will count all a student's grade bumps in determining a student's weighted GPA. While the other UC's only give credit for 8 semesters. This should show Berkeley's average GPA to be higher than the other UC's. Again, as the saying goes, "there's lies, damn lies, and statistics."</p>
<p>come on guys- delaware state has an average gpa of 4.56-- they dont lie ever and that includes the great athletes coming from there (aka one semi-pro curling player)</p>