By Leslie Brody, Staff Writer
Hours after The Record reported Friday that Ramapo College of New Jersey inflated its SAT results, the school announced it would start submitting its scores correctly to the nation’s dominant publisher of college rankings.
Ramapo College, which has promoted its increased selectivity in recent years, excluded 22 percent of freshmen — particularly its most disadvantaged students — when reporting average SAT scores to U. S. News and World Report. Submitting only the scores of so-called “regular admits” boosted the SAT average of incoming freshman to 1165, up 52 points from the full class that entered in fall 2010.
In the competitive world of college recruiting, such an increase can make a difference to prospective students’ impressions about a school.
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