<p>From what I’ve read somewhere, the business school actually reports the numbers for it’s incoming classes correctly. Also, Ad Infinitum, you should probably trust no elite school. I would hardly call any of them ethical. Many of them have watered down coursework and inflated grades for the sake of keeping their students competitive among employers and other outside parties (prof. schools, etc). This means that “making our students look as good on paper as they did when they entered” is more important than providing them with a high caliber education. Elite education is a business and has little interest in being ethical so much as avoiding being caught with unethical behavior. I consider this more unethical than gaming the rankings (and there are more subtle ways that top school game the rankings by making weird admissions schemes such as heavy yield protecting and throwing an unreasonable amount of students on the waitlist, lots of stuff…) which seem to actual encourage the behavior. Let’s not mention that many elite colleges have continued to foster environments where grades and superficial achievement/development are so important that cheating scandals have become an expectation and unsurprising. </p>
<p>Elite schools may be decent at offering an education that “could” be better than many/most places, but they are far from ethical (I find that the administration at such places are perhaps as unethical as several of its competitive, high achieving students) despite what they try to tell us and outsiders. Emory just gets caught. Pity…Some schools are so prestigious that their corruption and inadequacies can be exposed over and over again, and no one blinks twice and still believes they are the best school on earth. But, Emory…“oh no, how dare them!” I view Emory as being a young and perhaps stupid version of some of its very academically solid (but less solid than what they should or perhaps used to be), yet corrupt aspirational peers. Emory is quite academically solid, but has some way to go (I feel like it would improve if we simply got more academically passionate students. We have the EC passionate, but we have to get students who are very passionate in both academics and ECs) and also needs to become more solid in the PR department. I would like for the latter to be untrue and for Emory admin to become much more ethical, but that’s hardly realistic.</p>