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Conclusion Retention Rate can be a proxy for happiness rankings Significant factors in happiness ranking: Level of Athletic Competition Racial Diversity Demographic Diversity Percentage in top 10% Graduating Class Discussion of hypothesis * * * What Makes Happy College Students? A study by Henry Lyford, Aisling Scott, and Aly Stark Statistics 120 Professor Yoon Claremont McKenna College The Story Princeton Review releases lists annually describing the top colleges in various categories from “Most Accessible Professors” to “Best Party Schools” “Happiest Students” arguably most important of lists but very hard to quantify. Pomona and Claremont McKenna on list of happiest but but Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps are not Questions What factors affect the overall happiness of college students? 2) Is retention rate a good metric for measuring the happiness of college students? 3) Which of the Claremont Colleges is the “happiest” according to our model? Colleges/Universities Examined Looked at the 20 “Happiest” and 20 “Least Happy” Schools as determined by Princteton Review surveys Happiest Brown CMC Wash U Pomona Stanford Princeton Bowdoin UNC Whitman Tulane Least Happy* Clemson University of Dayton Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering The College of New Jersey Yale Prescott College Rice BYU St. Mary’s College of Maryland George Washington Fisk Tuskegee UC Riverside Alfred Umass - Amherst Illinois Tech Hanover NYU Whittier Clarkson New Jersey Tech SUNY - Stone Brook New Mexico Inst. Mining and Tech Albion College Eugene Lang College * Military Academies not included in study Factors Considered Quantifiable Size of school: Total number undergraduates Climate: Average Temperature Average Class Size Racial Diversity Demographic Diversity Academic Rigor: Percent top ten High school class (GPA) With Dummy Variables Level of Athletic Competition: Division 1 or not Setting: Town or City Greek Life: Present or not Y-variable for test #1