<p>Parchment is self-reporting and WashU has a pretty good reputation for tooting their own horn, so I would guess that WashU might be incentivising their matriculants to post the data in their favor to Parchment. Not that this is actually happening, but any self-reporting system can be manipulated like that, especially if it’s a small dataset. </p>
<p>As someone said, how many cross admits between WashU and Caltech can there be? And if you get the 2-3 who chose WashU over CalTech to post, whereas the CalTech folks could care less, WashU comes out the winner. Seems to me it would be a low cost way to get some good publicity your way - offer a $25 Panera Gift Card if you come in to Admissions and post the data to Parchment, you’ll get a pretty good turnout. $2500 would get you 100 kids and that could throw the Parchment data your way.</p>