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<p>While there is a small grain of truth in that statement, there was more to the story. Michele Tolela Myers tried to have her cake and eat it too! SLC decided not to use the SAT (different from making it optional) but also wanted to maintain an unchanged ranking. The USNews warned SLC that they would (justifiably) penalize the school. Refusing to fill the survey and protesting openly was just more of the same (and after the fact) gamesmanship. </p>
<p>This is a rare event where USNews deserves the credit in dealing correctly with the institutions that are deliberately gaming the system. Bob Morse was correct in placing SLC in a separate category with all other schools that cannot be ranked. Morse could get even more credit by having a zero tolerance policy and place ALL SAT optional schools in the same group than SLC.</p>