skatfan
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That was a really interesting article. Sad to hear that many students get admitted because their parents will pay more in tuition and then bring down the rest of the class. The scariest item was the year the college went with the more talented students (some with lower SATs though) the professors loved it but the school’s ranking dropped by several places.I found this article in the NYT magazine section to be very enlightening about how the admissions process is extremely vulnerable to the kind of manipulations that occurred in this cheating scandal. The pressure to balance the budget while optimizing the measures that go into the latest iteration of the US News and World Report ranking algorithm creates terrible incentives.