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Could a College Scorecard Backfire? It Did for Law Students

The Atlantic

February 3, 2012

A group of lawyers has filed suits against a dozen different law schools accusing them of using rosy, and grossly distorted, jobs data to dupe students into applying. They followed three similar suits filed last year. Yes, these cases sound like a bad joke - If a law school loses a suit to its recently graduated students, does that make it a terrible law school or a great one? - but they offer a lesson that the administration should keep in mind if it's serious about pushing schools to collect job numbers. Bad data can be much, much worse than no data at all. And without serious oversight, there's a good chance you'll end up with some terribly misleading numbers.

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