Claremont McKenna Admissions

Claremont McKenna Admissions January 31, 2012 Dick Vos, the former Vice President and Dean of Admissions Financial Aid at Claremont McKenna has resigned. There is a college admissions scandal brewing at the university. Claremont McKenna Admissions is under fire from the press and academia. In 2007, the MIT Dean of Admission resigned for lying on her resume. Specifically, the dean misrepresented her degrees which was rather ironic because she previously spoke out nationally about how, for instance, high school students shouldnt overstate their roles in high school activities. Prior to the scandal, we very much supported the longtime MIT Dean of Admission for speaking out against the status quo in college admissions. The MIT Admissions Office now has some company on Page 6. But that was then. Now its time for Claremont McKenna to dominate Page 6 with a college admissions scandal of their own. If you havent already heard, the Claremont McKenna Office of Admission is in quite a bit of hot water! According to The LA Times, Claremont McKennas Vice President and Dean of Admissions Financial Aid has resigned when news came out that the school had inflated the SAT scores of applicants in the hope of rising in the annual US News World Report college rankings. Even biggertheyve been doing this since 2005 specifically, 10 to 20 points each year! If you didnt suspect the US News World Report college rankings were important before, hopefully you do now that you can see what Deans of Admission will do to push their school ahead of the competition. While Claremont McKenna has not announced this formally, Richard Dick Vos, the former Vice President and Dean of Admissions Financial Aid is no longer listed on the website of the Claremont McKenna admissions office (the school has done a fairly good job of deleting him from every CMC search engine result possible!). He is also no longer employed by the college. It doesnt take rocket science to conclude that Dick Vos is thus the person responsible for inflating SAT test results of applicants in the hope of boosting Claremont McKennas US News World Report rankings. This college admissions scandal, which was prominently featured last night on The New York Times website, is still developing. Check back to our blog for updates.