but you do see some institutions trying to game the system. reporter: the school blames the entire incident on one bad administrator who s been fired. the unnamed administrator who inflated those scores is now gone. still, the college has declined our requests for an interview. they said in a letter to students and staff that they take this situation very seriously and that they will conduct an independent investigation. but a college that prides itself on teaching its students is itself learning a valuable lesson. abbie boudreau, abc news, claremont, california. and the fact there s no way to verify the numbers these colleges are reporting, that is scary. and it s also a shame that people are paying, as you heard in that piece, $55,000 a year. if i m paying that kind of money, it better be the top-notch education as advertised that it is. and it is a very prestigious liberal arts school. about 1,300 students go there. it s ranked by u.s. news & world report the ninth best libe
american prosperity. reporter: it was a brutal campaign here in florida, one that grew more nasty, more personal every day. but romney said ultimately it won t have lasting damage. a competitive primary does not divide us. it prepares us. and we will win. reporter: romney and his allies hammered newt gingrich on television, spending nearly $13.8 million on attack ads in just a week. that s nearly four times what gingrich and his allies spent. but it may not have mattered. based on exit polling data, nearly 6 in 10 voters say the negative ads had little or no effect on their vote. maybe because they made their decision before any of the negative ads even hit the airwaves. 4 in 10 republican voters here say they made their decision back in december. gingrich vowed to stay in the race until the bitter end, which he says is still a long way down the road. we are going to contest every
welcome back, everyone. a cheating scandal has erupted at one of america s most elite private colleges in the country. but it s not the students who were caught cheating. mm-mm. the administration of the school was trying to boost the school s ranking. and the scandal is now raising some new questions about the value of those college ranking magazines. with more on this here is abc s abbie boudreau. reporter: at claremont mckenna college students live by a code of honor. but educators at this prestigious liberal arts college outside los angeles admitted they were the ones who had been cheating. for six years the school submitted false data to the critical u.s. news & world report, lying about the average math and reading s.a.t. scores of their students, inflating them by 10 to 20 points each.
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not a drop to drink further south. just praying for rain. hopefully we ll get some. reporter: after water levels in spicewood s well dropped, local officials were forced to begin hauling in water on tanker trucks. if they don t truck us in water, then we re completely out of water and we will not be able to function at all in this community at all. reporter: rain is falling in texas. even spicewood will get storms. but meteorologists say mere inches won t make up for months of drought. spicewood will keep trucking in their water for the next several weeks. they have no choice. and if the heavy rains in other parts of texas let up, they may not be the only ones. and some experts are predicting that texas s drought will last through the end of april. so no relief anytime soon. rob, paula? diana alvear, thanks for that report. here is your wednesday weather. mild with showers here in new york.