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re: 2 SEC Schools Rank in Forbes' 2015 Top 25 Best Public Colleges
Posted on 7/31/15 at 4:03 pm to theGarnetWay
Posted on 7/31/15 at 4:03 pm to theGarnetWay
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Watt said Thursday that reports on her remarks had missed the point of her presentation to a conference and that she regretted any suggestion of illegal activity. Meanwhile, the university denied several of the allegations, but acknowledged it aims to improve in the influential rankings. Clemson jumped from No. 38 among public universities in 2001 to No. 22 in 2008 — an unusually quick ascent considering the rankings typically change little from year to year.
So Clemson figured out how to manipulate the ranking system and no other college could figure out the same thing? lol Color me skeptical. All Clemson did is look at the critirea and adjust things at the college to help boost the ranking. The critiera is what it is.
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Posted on 7/31/15 at 4:08 pm to Jamie Lannister
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So Clemson figured out how to manipulate the ranking system and no other college could figure out the same thing? lol Color me skeptical. All Clemson did is look at the critirea and adjust things at the college to help boost the ranking. The critiera is what it is.
Nope. A number of schools did what they could to skew the rankings.
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Schools cheat. No one knows how many colleges and universities fib when they complete their college rankings surveys. But some pretty big players have been caught falsifying or manipulating numbers to bump themselves up in the standings, including Clemson University, Claremont McKenna College, U.S. Naval Academy, Baylor University and Emory University (I wrote about such questionable behavior by Ivy League institutions in a previous post.)
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adjust things at the college to help boost the ranking
If you read the article you would know that Clemson ranked all of its peers with a below average grade, which counts for a significant % of the rankings. Point is, the rankings hardly reflect the quality of the school.
This post was edited on 7/31/15 at 4:10 pm
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