If the authors of the rankings reports knew how it would affect thousands of students over the years would they still have written the initial reports? The best thing that could happen would be for people to ignore this “service” The gaming of the system totally undermines what is good for students. Actually, the ways in which schools enroll and count things is shameful. But people are like lemmings and all use the same tools to figure out where to apply instead of doing the research themselves. Maybe someone intelligent will come out with a web site which shows “the rankings” and shows how each school manipulates their data so that a light is shown on these practices.