USNews Boots George Washington University from Rankings

[Sam_Lee]

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Claremont McKenna advised U.S. News that, for the factors used in the Best Colleges ranking, its correct average Critical Reading and Math SAT score for the fall 2010 entering class was 1,385, compared to the originally reported score of 1,410, and that its correct percent of high school students graduating in the top 10 percent of the graduating class was 72 percent, compared to the originally reported figure of 85 percent.

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<p>green4,
I am very skeptical of what USN claimed. I would it very difficult to believe that a drop of 25 points in SAT coupled with a drop of 13-percentage points in top-10 percent wouldn’t have changed anything. USN has been around for a quite a while; if a school were to have the same magnitude of change but in the opposite direction, it would probably have climbed at least a few spots! It sounds very fishy to me.</p>

<p>I remember when I uncovered the misreporting by USC in the engineering ranking few years ago, the USN claimed it was insignificant. My intuition told me it didn’t make sense. I was confident that it was bogus since I honestly thought I had a fairly good sense on numbers. A year later, USC dropped 3 spots.</p>