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Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation
xzvf writes "A disgruntled Clemson University staffer shows how US News and World Report college rankings are manipulated. Techniques include bad-mouthing other schools, filling out applications from highly qualified students that never intended to apply, and lying about class size and professor salaries." The school, naturally, denies that anything unethical went on. The New York Times has a more detailed article, which links to this first-person account of the presentation.
water is wet!
Of course they cheat. They have to. If they don't know how to cheat then how can they catch the students when they cheat so they can cheat better and better so they can cheat into a job where others learn to cheat from them! /cheat cheat
I am SHOCKED that anything unethical would go on in academia, especially with regards to admissions and maintaining image.
Surely this is all bullshit and academia is focused on teaching students, not patting themselves on the back and striving for U-peen and the subsequent moneys.
About 20 years ago Playboy Magazine picked MIT as one of the top ten party schools. Rumor was that Playboy called some random dude on campus who listed out all the parties happening that year, making it sound like they were all happening that weekend.
I feel badly for all those kids who chose MIT because of its top-ten Playboy ranking, only to go and find a bunch of nerds, forever regretting not going to Clemson instead.
It's like contrast ratio and response time for LCDs. Does anyone actually base their college choice on these rankings, anyway?
Why, I chose the college with the fastest LCDs, something wrong with that?
Yeah. Would you choose a neurosurgeon who pokes around people's brains in his spare time? I wouldn't.
I chose mine for realistic flesh tones, it's supposed to help with high intensity scenes, like ......er, certain sports.
Clemson is a land grant college in a small town, hence MooCow. The "GO COCKS!" was, I suspect, contributed by a student/alumnus/alumna of The University of South Carolina, Clemson's archrival and home of the Fighting Gamecocks. As an alumnus of South Carolina, I'll kick in an extra GO COCKS!!
So the students can go to the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash along the highway on work days.
I think you missed a lesbo joke.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.