How Data Analytics Can Weed Out College Admissions Fraud

By Michael Costa and Jonny Frank (March 22, 2019, 3:35 PM EDT) -- Top-tier colleges and standardized test providers ― whether implicated in the "Operation Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal or realizing their own similar vulnerabilities ― are scrambling to assess years of admissions records for signs of misconduct. Forensic analytics, the analysis of data to detect unique patterns or anomalies, can help find the needles in the massive haystacks of college admission files....

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