<p>This was posted by jym626 on another thread:</p>
<p>Emory</a> University misrepresented student data | ajc.com</p>
<p>Another reason not to entirely trust USNWR rankings. Garbage in and garbage out.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised if even more schools illegally exploited methods like these just for rankings </p>
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<p>roger posted it a few days ago.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/emory-university/1380079-emory-finds-intentional-misreporting-sat-rank-data-revamps-procedures.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/emory-university/1380079-emory-finds-intentional-misreporting-sat-rank-data-revamps-procedures.html</a></p>
<p>Never soley judge a college by one ranking system.</p>
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<p>So, why does anyone care again?</p>
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<p>Because rankings don’t matter, and integrity does.</p>
<p>Everyone knows rankings don’t matter, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t exciting to see every year.</p>
<p>Though I agree the fake scores not having an effect is irrelevant - they were fake. Someone lied on purpose.</p>
<p>I notice that Emory still proudly asserts its ranking on its website. I wonder if the same “faulty data” would impact its other rankings?</p>
<p>“Small to negligible effect” - nice damage control from the entity which was hoodwinked. USNWR, IMHO, should express outrage - on the other hand, if all those families who fork money over would understand the lack of rigor which USNWR scrutinizes the information furnished by the school, those families would not be spending money on USNWR.</p>
<p>The way I figure it, 3000+ kids who were accepted and included in the inflated stats chose to go elsewhere. Some of those kids had lesser stats than the mean and attended “lesser” ranked schools (perhaps a cost issue, etc.). But, the overwhelming majority of those kids had better stats. (standardized testing) than the mean (Emory was a “safety” school) and eliminating those 33-35 ACT/2200 SAT would significantly drop the mean. We can debate all day long what those scores really mean; but to the colleges it seems to mean a lot.</p>
<p>This was no innocent error. It was perpetrated for a decade; each and every year inflated stats were used in an attempt to inflate a school’s desirability in the eyes of its market. Call it bait and switch, negligent misrepresentation, or consumer fraud. Whatever you label it,ba 55k per year school lured people to apply with false information. How can you believe anything else the school asserts (e.g., med school chances, student teacher ratio, post-graduate employment, ect.).</p>
<p>It will be interesting to watch the damage control unfold. Will Emory clean out their admissions office? Or will spin control win out (“gee, its really a small effect”)? Time will tell.</p>
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<p>I’ve actually heard that rankings have effects on matriculants at universities. And seeing how many people obsess over the USNEWS rankings, that wouldn’t be surprising. This isn’t an argument, though, since i’m unfamiliar with any formal study that studied the effects that a ranking like USNEWS has on matriculants for a given university.</p>
<p>This isn’t going to go away that quickly:</p>
<p>[Emory</a> University Sent False Data To Rankings Groups For More Than A Decade: Report](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>
<p>I don’t get it. If Emory’s admission office “reported admitted students’ SAT/ACT scores to external surveys as enrolled student scores”, what data did they use to report admitted students scores on their own website?</p>
<p>[Class</a> Profile | Emory College of Arts and Sciences Admission](<a href=“http://www.emory.edu/admission/admission/class_profile/]Class”>http://www.emory.edu/admission/admission/class_profile/)</p>
<p>Emory should be unranked next year just like the others that have misrepresented data</p>