A quick way for schools to climb in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings is to attract more applicants, enroll fewer of them and consistently show higher scores on the SAT. It’s a perverse formula that colleges and universities subject themselves to so they can appear “selective.”
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Beware the cheating colleges
Friday, February 8, 2013 | 11:21 a.m. CST
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