NY Times article: Seeking Higher Learning at Lower Cost

rodney
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:52:54 +0000

harriet: you also have to account for the fact that NYS students, on the whole, are graded on a “weighted” scale of 100, while many,many OOS students are graded on an unweighted 4.0 scale. Those involved to try to find out whether Binghamton does a re-do on GPA’s or reports whatever is provided to them by the high schools. In addition, they are actively recruiting OOS students and MAY, and i repeat may, accept slighty lower stats. Although with 50% increase this year, that may have to go by the wayside…
the big q remains: Which is the bigger goal? Increase the ranking (by becoming more selective) or increase OOS population (which would help the budget)…?