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Should you apply to a college that has had a recent scandal?

  • Written by Jonathan Smith, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
Should you apply to a college that has had a recent scandal?Most of the nation's top schools experience a major scandal that causes applications to fall, new research shows.EQRoy from www.shutterstock.com

When a scandal lands a college at the center of media attention, students and families are often repulsed – quite literally.

That’s what we discovered when we examined admissions data at dozens...

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