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Ignoring SAT scores can endanger ranking.(NEWSWATCH)(Scholastic Aptitude Test)(Brief article)

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The U.S. News will make up SAT data if your school does not collect SAT scores, the president of Sarah Lawrence College NY wrote in an op-ed piece in The Washington Post.

President Michele Tolela Myers said that because her school does not even examine SAT scores, U.S. News officials told her that the magazine will assume that the SAT average is one standard deviation (about 200 points) below the college's peers. "In other words, in the absence of real data, they will make up a number," Myers wrote.

Robert Morse, head of the U.S. News' college rankings, admitted that he had discussed with Myers the SAT score plan, but that the magazine would seriously consider other ...

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