Forum on CMC’s lack of financial aid draws over 200 attendees

More than 200 Claremont McKenna College community members — including students, faculty, staff, administrators and members of CMC’s Board of Trustees — gathered at Freeberg Forum on Nov. 6 to discuss the college’s financial aid and accessibility. Student organizers said they aimed to encourage conversation about CMC’s affordability after recent declines in the college’s provision of need-based financial aid. CMC’s common data set indicates that in last spring’s admission cycle, the college admitted its lowest percentage of students on need-based financial aid in over a dozen years, while the cost of tuition has steadily increased. Forum organizers Oscar Ponteri CM ’27 and Shiraz Smith CM ’27 told TSL that these statistics, alongside seeing their peers have to take on more loans each year to attend CMC, was their primary motivation behind hosting the financial aid forum.

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