<p>I think the title of this thread is somewhat misleading. The word ‘fabricating’ in this context sounds to me like making something up in a malicious way - i.e. purposely lying. From the article it doesn’t sound like that’s what they did. Some administrator(s) inferred the class rank from the grades/GPA. Whoever did that may have felt it was a valid method to use (even though it’s not) and wasn’t trying to ‘fabricate data’ in an effort to bump up the stats as some colleges have done (by purposely submitting higher SAT scores than the incoming class actually had for example).</p>
<p>It’s also good to hear that the Uni itself figured out the error and immediately corrected it by using third party auditors and then instituting changes to prevent it from happening again.</p>