Prestigious California College Admits Inflating SAT Scores For Rankings CLAREMONT, Calif. - A senior administrator at California's Claremont McKenna College has confessed to submitting false SAT scores to publications such as U.S. News & World Report since 2005 to inflate the small, prestigious school's ranking among the nation's colleges and universities. President Pamela Gann told college staff members and students at the small, prestigious school about the falsified scores in an email Monday, according to The New York Times . Gann wrote that a "senior administrator" had taken sole responsibility for falsifying the scores, admitted doing so since 2005, and resigned his post. Gann said the critical reading and math scores reported to U.S. News and others "were generally inflated by an average of 10-20 points each." The current U.S. News rankings list Claremont McKenna as the ninth-best liberal arts college in the country, a fact noted on Gann's biography on the college's website. The liberal arts school has about 1,200 students and places a strong academic focus on political science and economics. The school has not officially identified the administrator who admitted the wrongdoing. "At this time, we have no reason to believe that other individuals were involved," Gann wrote in her message to staff. Gann said a law firm has been hired to investigate further.