The Washington Post reported that a small private college in California has admitted that one of the top officials on its staff has been falsely reporting the SAT scores for admitted students to several news outlets for the past six years. While Claremont McKenna officials were not willing to name the person suspected of providing the falsified reports, they have admitted that the scores were exaggerated by up to 20 points in order to improve their school's national standings in the news. Apparently this is a common practice in colleges and universities, and proving that results were falsified can be difficult; statistics may be skewed in multiple ways to more positively portray what the provider wants people to hear. Some schools will eliminate scores of students who are taking the class in English when English is not their primary language or eliminating the scores of the college's athletes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/college-admits-inflating-sat-scores-to-boost-ranking/2012/01/31/gIQAo0H1fQ_blog.html
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