Tuesday, December 11, 2012

U.S. News strips George Washington University of ranking for cheating.

U.S. News & World Report, whose college rankings help control the pocketbooks of parents, has just sanctioned George Washington University for cheating in its data over the past decade, inflating its students at the top of their high school classes.

GWU notified U.S. News of the discrepancy, and the magazine has shifted the school to "unranked" status, dropping it from a No. 51 rating.

The key statistic for incoming 2011 freshmen was reported as 78 percent in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. The corrected number is 58 percent.

"Because of the discrepancy in the rankings, U.S. News has changed George Washington University from being a ranked school to an "unranked" school in the Best Colleges section of usnews.com. Unranked means that U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for this school," the magazine reported.


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3 comments:

  1. StrelnikovDecember 11, 2012 at 5:25 AM

    "US News and World Report" is defunct; all that remains is that college ranking special, and I don't know if they still even print it.

    Even for that, the president of GWU should kill him/her self in the quad. Bloodily.

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    1. BellaDecember 11, 2012 at 5:50 AM

      With a saber?

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    2. introvert.profDecember 11, 2012 at 9:36 AM

      It's only defunct if you count having a fully functioning website, with paid reporting and news and whatnot, as "defunct."

      Delete

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