<p>NEU needs to be careful: gaming can easily lead to manipulating stats to artificially improve outcomes. It then stats to do what other schools have done when they have gamed and misrepresented data. At some point USN&WR will start to lose its credibility due to gaming and false reporting and the big jumps seen by NEU will be looked upon with great suspicion; TomSrofBoston is wrong: at what point will it’s blatant gaming be seen as cheating? It is a very thin line that separates them.</p>