Colorado College

The Colorado College (otherwise called CC) is a private aesthetic sciences school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was established in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell. The school enlists around 2,000 students at its 90-section of land (36 ha) grounds, 70 miles (110 km) south of Denver. The school offers 42 majors and 33 minors, and has an understudy staff proportion of 10:1. Acclaimed graduated class incorporate Ken Salazar, Lynne Cheney, James Heckman and Marc Webb. Colorado College has an acknowledgment rate of 17%, was positioned as the best private school in Colorado by Forbes, and recorded as the 25th-best National Liberal Arts College in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report rankings. 

Colorado College is subsidiary with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Most games groups are in the NCAA Division III, except for Division I groups in Men's Hockey and Women's Soccer. 

Colorado College was established in 1874 ashore assigned by U.S. Common War veteran General William Jackson Palmer, the author of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and of Colorado Springs. Originator Thomas Nelson Haskell, depicted it as a coeducational aesthetic sciences school in the convention of Oberlin College. In the same way as other U.S. schools and colleges that have persisted from the nineteenth century it now is common in viewpoint, however it holds its aesthetic sciences center. 

Cutler Hall, the school's first building was finished in 1880 and the first degrees were given in 1882. The Beta-Omega Chapter of The Kappa Sigma Fraternity was sanctioned in 1904. William F. Slocum, president from 1888 to 1917, supervised the beginning building of the grounds, extended the library and enrolled top researchers in various fields. In 1930 Shove Chapel was raised by Mr. John Gray, to meet the religious needs of the understudies (however Colorado College is not religiously associated). 

In its 2016 version, U.S. News and World Report ties Colorado College with Bates College, Bryn Mawr College, and Kenyon College for 25th-best aesthetic sciences school in the country. In the 2016 release, Colorado College was likewise positioned #1 among the most creative national aesthetic sciences universities alongside Bard College, Davidson College, and Franklin and Marshall College. The most inventive schools are those "making the most creative upgrades as far as educational programs, personnel, understudies, grounds life, innovation or offices." Colorado College is viewed as a "most particular school," by US News. 

Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Colorado College at eleventh in its 2012 positioning of best esteem aesthetic sciences schools in the United States. CC is additionally a "Concealed Ivy." 

In 2010, Colorado College was positioned 21st in Newsweek's rundown titled "25 Most Desirable Small Schools," which positions schools in light of selectivity, yield rate, degree of consistency, and nature of offices and lodging. 

CC was additionally positioned nineteenth on Newsweek's "Most Desirable Urban Schools" list around the same time. 

In 2012, Colorado College put twelfth in College Prowler's "Universities with the Happiest Students." 

In 2014, Forbes evaluated it 51st generally speaking in "America's Top Colleges," which incorporate both national colleges and aesthetic sciences universities. It was appraised second in general in Colorado. 

For the Class of 2019 (enlisted fall 2015), Colorado College got 8,054 applications and acknowledged around 1,369 (17.0%). The number enlisting was 568; the yield rate (the rate of acknowledged understudies who enlist) was 42%. For the class of 2018, 27% recognized themselves as understudies of shading, 7% as global understudies, and 7% as original understudies. 53% of the enlisted class are female, while 47% are male. The normal ACT score was 31, and SAT composites of 1380 (out of 1600)and 2070 (out of 2400). More than 80% of enlisted understudies are from out of state. 

The class of 2018 likewise had outstanding rate increments in understudy rankings. As far as class rank (for class of 2018), 26% of enlisted first year recruits were in the main 1% of their secondary school classes, 59% positioned in the main 5%, 80% positioned in the main 10%, and 96% positioned in the top quarter of their secondary school class. Of the 31% of enlisting green beans who submitted SAT scores, the center half scope of scores were 690 for basic perusing, 690 for math, and 690 for composing. The center half scope of the ACT Composite score was 29–33 for the selected green beans who presented the score.Since the mid-1950s, new offices incorporate three expansive living arrangement corridors, Worner Campus Center, Tutt Library, Olin Hall of Science and the Barnes Science Center, Honnen Ice Rink, Boettcher Health Center, Schlessman Pool, Armstrong Hall of Humanities, Palmer Hall, El Pomar Sports Center, and Packard Hall of Music and Art. Bemis, Cossitt, Cutler, Montgomery, and Palmer Halls are a portion of the remaining turn-of-the-century structures on the National Register of Historic Places, alongside the William I. Spencer Center.[citation needed] Arthur Hall, once home to the child of President Chester A. Arthur, is another grounds expanding on the notable register. 

The substance of grounds changed again toward the start of the 21st century with development of the Western Ridge Housing Complex, which offers loft style living for upper-division understudies and finish of the Russell T. Tutt Science Center. The east grounds has been extended, and is currently home to the Greek Quad and a few little living arrangement corridors known as "subject houses