ETS Draws the Ire of Public-Health Schools by Limiting Access to Score Reports

A four-digit number has incited a heated conflict between the Educational Testing Service and a group of graduate schools of public health. The number is 5688, and in the standardized-testing industry, it is known as a "designated institution code."

Such codes, which ETS assigns to colleges and scholarship organizations, allow test takers to indicate which ones should receive their official Graduate Record Examination scores. And ETS, which owns the GRE, is the sole judge of what is

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