Claremont McKenna College News

  • Claremont McKenna retains top-10 U.S. News ranking after probe (Los Angeles Times)
    posted on April 27, 2012 at 02:00:00 am
    Despite exaggerating the SAT scores and high school rankings of its freshmen, Claremont McKenna College keeps its No. 9 position in U.S. News & World Report's list of best liberal arts schools. Claremont McKenna College's exaggeration of its freshmen's SAT scores and high school rankings turned out to be so small that it had no effect on the school's position in U.S. News & World Report rankings this year, magazine officials said Thursday.
  • H.B. school shines at national debate (ocregister)
    posted on April 24, 2012 at 05:59:00 pm
    HUNTINGTON BEACH – The Pegasus School's Middle School Debate Team placed first as a team at the 2012 Middle School Public Debate Program 10th Annual Nationals this weekend at the competition at Claremont McKenna College. There were over 270...
  • Probe: Official inflated SAT scores on his own (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
    posted on April 18, 2012 at 01:35:00 pm
    An investigation has shown that a Claremont McKenna College administrator doctored incoming freshmen's SAT scores and other statistics in an effort to make the school appear more selective.
  • Lone official overstated Claremont McKenna scores, report says (Los Angeles Times)
    posted on April 18, 2012 at 02:00:00 am
    Claremont McKenna College's president did not unduly pressure the former admissions vice president or push him to take unethical actions, an outside inquiry finds. An investigation has found that Claremont McKenna College's former vice president for admission and financial aid acted alone in exaggerating freshmen SAT scores and other statistics, which boosted the school's national rankings, according to a report released Tuesday.
  • Genes and investing: Natural stock selection (Economist)
    posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:01:00 am
    ECONOMISTS work on the assumption that people act rationally. If only life were that simple. Investors certainly don’t always act as they should. Among other follies, they trade too much, do not diversify their portfolios enough and are loth to discard underperforming stocks. They may have been born to behave that way. A recent study* into investment behaviour by Stephan Siegel of Arizona State University’s WP Carey School of Business, and Henrik Cronqvist of Claremont McKenna College, illuminates the role that genes play in determining investment decisions.The authors examine the investment behaviour of 15,208 pairs of Swedish twins, using data from the country’s twin registry and its tax authority,
  • Girls State delegates (Oroville Mercury-Register)
    posted on June 13, 2011 at 05:59:52 am
    Ladies of American Legion Unit 985 held an ice cream social for the delegates and alternates who will attend Girls State June 26 through July 2 at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California.