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I think you have to go back to the '50s or perhaps the early '60s for that. When I was applying in the early '70s, it was significantly lower than that.</p>
<p>temima,
The data above, as noted, is from USNWR. If you believe that the data is incorrect, then please indicate where there is an error, provide the correction and the documentation to support that. Thank you. </p>
<p>I continue to find it very curious that you engage in this endless harassment of sources like collegeboard and USNWR. Other than you, I don’t see anyone else making these repeated (unsubstantiated) charges in a variety of forums and threads that the USNWR/collegeboard.com data is wrong. </p>
<p>One of the primary objectives of USWNR and collegeboard is to inform and, in the interests of the CC readers, I welcome specific comment on the specific data fields where you believe that there are inaccuracies. Elsewhere you have referenced the admissions folks at Johns Hopkins as also believing that collegeboard is incorrect. With specific regard to Johns Hopkins and checking if the USNWR and collegeboard data is correct, a good place to start would be with the full disclosure found in the Common Data Set. I look forward to the public provision of the CDS as documentation for any data presentation errors that you believe either USNWR or collegeboard have made re Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>temima-
I am not so sure that admissions offices are the best source of information. They are the marketing branch of the school and are likely to put the most positive spin on their information. The best source of information about colleges is the US Department of Education IPEDS. Schools are required to follow carefully defined guidelines when reporting information to IPEDS. Schools can be fined or even lose federal funding for failing to comply with with US Dept of Ed reporting requirements. But, even then, errors and omissions sometimes occur in public IPEDS data, but not often.</p>
<p>What’s more important, I agree in general with the importance of good data.</p>