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<p>What would you estimate are the chances that Morse’s employees did in fact review Clemson’s entries? Or the chances that any human being at Synovate did anything else than entering all Clemson’s data in the database? </p>
<p>I’d say between zero and nil!</p>
<p>And, fwiw, what would be the basis for USNews to reject the “opinion” of the esteemed Prez of Clemson? Is his “opinion” less valuable than the others who manipulate the results of the survey? Would Morse’s people kill the 10-15 five’s Clemson MIGHT have entered for schools such as HYPS or Berkeley? Would Morse delete two or three highest scores … just because? Yeah, right!</p>
<p>The reason why the respondents do not fear offering whimsical opinions is that they know they can get away with about anything in total impunity and … secrecy. At least, that is until from the inside lifts the veil on the “practices” and there is no way to deny the alleged facts. </p>
<p>So far we have only seen the top of the iceberg, and much more is to come. You can expect a lot more scrutiny from the press that had been very gullible in the past, and perhaps a growing sense of frustration from the general public.</p>