CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE, A SMALL, PRESTIGIOUS CALIFORNIA SCHOOL, ADMITTED THAT IT HAS
SUBMITTED FALSE SAT SCORES TO PUBLICATIONS LIKE U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT USE THE DATA IN WIDELY FOLLOWED COLLEGE RANKINGS. 1. ______ IN A MESSAGE E-MAIL TO COLLEGE STAFF MEMBERS AND STUDENTS, CLAREMONT 2. ______ MCKENNA"S PRESIDENT SINCE 1999, PAMELA
B. GANN, WROTE THAT "A SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR" HAD TAKEN SOLELY RESPONSIBILITY FOR FALSIFYING THE SCORES, 3.______ ADMITTED DOING SO SINCE 2005, AND RESIGNED HIS POST. PEOPLE BRIEFED ON THE MATTER SAID THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR WAS RICHARD
C. VOS, VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF ADMISSIONS, WHOSE NAME WAS REMOVED AWAY IN THE LAST FEW DAYS FROM THE COLLEGE"S ONLINE LIST OF TOP OFFICIALS. 4. ______ THE CRITICAL READING AND MATH SCORES REPORTED TO U.S. NEWS AND OTHERS "WERE GENERALLY INFLAMED BY AN AVERAGE OF 10-20 POINTS EACH," MS. GANN WROT
E. FOR THE 5. ______ CLASS THAT ENTERED THE SCHOOL IN SEPTEMBER 2010 — THE MOST RECENT SET OF FIGURES MADE THE PUBLIC —THE COMBINED MEDIAN SCORE OF 1,400 WAS REPORTED AS 1,410, 6. ______ SHE SAID, WHILE THE 75TH PERCENT SCORE OF 1,480 WAS REPORTED AS 1,510. 7. ______ SUCH SMALL DIFFERENCES MIGHT INFLUENCE THE RANKINGS, BUT THE DECEPTION 8, ______ UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE THOSE RANKINGS HAVE TAKEN ON, AS COLLEGES FRET TOWARD THE LOSS OF EVEN A NOTCH OR TWO AGAINST THEIR COMPETITORS. 9. ______ ROBERT FRANEK, THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLISHING FOR THE PRINCETON REVIEW, WHICH PROVIDES PREPARATION FOR THE SAT AND ALSO RANKS COLLEGES, SAID THAT HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF A COLLEGE UNINTENTIONALLY REPORTING INCORRECT DATA. 10,______