After a little while of defending the “win-win” integrity of providing financial incentives for their freshmen to retake the SAT, Baylor University has dropped the program:
After several days in which educators and admissions experts nationally lambasted its plan to pay accepted applicants to raise their SAT scores (and presumably the institution’s ranking in U.S. News [...]
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17 Oct 08
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14 Oct 08
Well, this is new. It strikes me as somewhat unethical and probably not the sort of thing a Christian university should be doing:
Baylor University in Waco, Tex., which has a goal of rising to the first tier of national college rankings, last June offered its admitted freshmen a $300 campus bookstore credit to retake the [...]
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