<p>Congratulations to your son PsychoDad10 on his admission to BC and Michigan!</p>
<p>On another note, public and private universities alike don’t have to include transfer students in their enrollment statistics so a lot of these schools have weaker student bodies as a whole than when just their freshman class is examined. Some of the most egregious offenders of this practice are NYU, USC, UCLA, and Cal Berkeley.</p>
<p>I think you go far in your disparaging of private universities Alexandre but there definitely should be an independent auditing of these rankings to make sure we are comparing apples to apples.</p>
<p>The only statistics that are meaningful to prospective students are graduate representation in elite medical, law, and business programs since this pertains to a vast segments of students and since this metric measures actual outcomes, it can’t be manipulated. Unfortunately, besides individual schools posting lists, there have been no comprehensive studies done since the WSJ Feeder Ranking in the early 2000s.</p>
<p>Michigan is in the top 20 for National Universities in that ranking if I recall so maybe you are right that a few more private or public schools will be exposed for being frauds before all is said and done.</p>