<p>From the quoted article:</p>
<p>I think the onus is on U.S. News to be sure that if theyre measuring the Naval Academy against any other undergraduate institution, that the way that data like this is being gathered is consistent, Kosmacher said. Otherwise, theres no validity to comparing one school to the other.</p>
<p>This is obviously not very high on Morse’s list at the USNews. All the magazine will do is wait for the schools to contact them. Yes, like that will happen. The reality is that the USNEWS could not care less about inconsistencies reported to them. They ignore the reports and continue to report data they KNOW to be false.</p>
<p>This is why schools such as Middlebury and the UC system to report whimsical numbers with impunity. We expect the USNews to report data that has a minimum of integrity, but it has none. They report whatever the school feeds them. The fact that they would be unaware of the way the academies report the data is plain ridiculous.</p>