CMC's last median SAT score on the old, uninflated scale was 1310, fifth-highest of small liberal-arts colleges in the country, and only 20-40 points below the most competitive colleges, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona, and Amherst. Even this understated the relative quality of CMC students in the last year before SAT scores were "renormed," that is, inflated by as much as 60-70 points. News & World Report had just ranked CMC 15th among all liberal-arts colleges in the nation. īy 1996 CMC was still not as well known in the East as its much-older rivals, such as Amherst (1821), Williams (1793), or Haverford (1833), but, by a number of measures, it could stand comparison with the very best of the country's "trophy colleges." U.S. Lowe did not say so, but, if we had kept track of entering students' grades and scores, as we finally did for the class that entered in 1957, the SAT median would probably have been in three digits, not four, somewhere between the 1995 scores of Slippery Rock University (Slippery Rock, PA: 860) and those of Samford University (Birmingham, AL: 1030), and much too far from the top tier to bother counting. As Board Chairman Bob Lowe '62 noted, CMC in 1946 was not much more than a gleam in its founders' eyes, with a few acres of rocky wash, Story House, $88,000 in gifts and pledges, a five-person pickup faculty, and a pickup student body of 86 local hopefuls too raw and new and busy to bother totting up their high school grades and SAT scores. 25, 1996, would also give some perspective and help pull the 50 years together. An early thumbnail contrast between CMC at 50 and CMC at the outset, maybe in the form of a prologue keyed to the 50th-anniversary black-tie celebration at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, Oct. His suggested additions and clarifications (some of which were incorporated into the printed version) included the following: Elliott was the only faculty member permitted to comment on the draft. Commerce and Civilization, the official commissioned history of CMC, was published in 1998.
Excerpts from Ward Elliotts Comments on the manuscript of Kevin Starr, Commerce and Civilization, May 16, 1997, release 1.10, updated to Oct.
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