How Colleges Pump Up Their Stats

Semi-related to our discussion yesterday about college prestige: ProPublica’s look at how colleges game their numbers (“Some colleges actually cross the line with their creative number-crunching. Since the start of last year, five colleges have acknowledged overstating their admissions statistics: Bucknell University, Claremont McKenna College, Emory University, George Washington University, and Tulane University’s business school.”)

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