MAY 16, 2015, 11:10 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015, 11:07 PM
BY PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Some of New Jersey’s public colleges and universities are making themselves appear more selective — and more attractive to prospective students — by skirting national standards when reporting data to the federal government and ratings organizations, The Record has found.
Ramapo College and Kean and Rowan universities include both complete and incomplete applications in the numbers they report, bloating the stated applicant pool by hundreds. Inflating the numbers to include students who leave out essential items like test scores or grades allows these schools to appear to be rejecting a substantially higher percentage of students.
A lower acceptance rate provides a reputation boost in the prestige-fueled world of college admissions.
In New Jersey, officials from the three schools acknowledge that incomplete applications are included in the totals they report to the federal government, U.S. News and World Report and other rating organizations and publications. This practice violates state and federal requirements that only completed applications be included, and makes it difficult to compare schools where some play by the rules and others do not.
Ramapo has lots of students from Rockland and Richmond (Staten Island) counties….
1:04pm – So Ramapo has alot of out of state students paying additional tuition???? The also have kids from LI, CT, etc. What’s your point????
All three of those schools are like backup schools for backup schools. If those are your only options, you are better off breaking your ass at Bergen Community for a couple years, and taking your perfect average to Rutgers or NJIT.
All bullshit….get a technical degree is far less time and develop a marketable trade…F the mainstream college trap. Worthless pieces of paper.