<p>Student615, when does school come back into session, we might attempt a tour of the campus while there are students on it. It has to be on a day adjacent to a weekend without a debate or mock trial tournament. We would try to get an interview in at that time. By the way, you write very well.</p>
<p>I'm glad it's been helpful (although perhaps a little too much on the long-winded side)! Alaska actually seems to be pretty well represented in Claremont, all things considered. You might try contacting Scripps and asking if she could somehow be put in touch with another Alaskan student? I know at least that when we do phone-a-thons (calling accepted/confirmed students to answer any questions), they try to match people with students from their home areas, so maybe they could do something similar through the admissions office. Not sure, but it could be an interesting shot.</p>
<p>Campus housing reopens on Sunday the 16th, but classes don't resume until Tuesday the 18th. I highly, highly recommend touring. The time right after break is one of my favorite times on campus...what it lacks in it's usual greenery (it may be LA, but leaves still fall) is made up by the view of snow on the mountains. I'd also recommend walking around the other campuses if you come down, because it's nice to see how accessible everything is, and to get a feel for the consortium as a whole. Good luck with organizing a trip (and thank you, regarding the writing). :-)</p>
<p>really enjoying your posts. there doesn't seem to be much information about scripps on this site. if you are enrolled in scripps as a physics major do you have to take all your physics courses at scripps or do you even have to take any of your physics courses at scripps?</p>
<p>Scripps, Pitzer, and CMC have a Joint Science Program. The whole facility is brand new, right at the intersection of all 3 campuses, and--from all I can tell, not having spent much time there--pretty nice. The fact that it's a joint program means that science classes--including those for physics majors--are entirely open to students of all 3 colleges. When you register for a science class, it's listed as being at "JSC" instead of at a particular college. Physics classes at Pomona and/or Mudd would require special permission, and I don't know how difficult this would be to obtain. There are generally a lot of sections of the science major classes, so likelihood for taking one off campus--unless it's a specific course that the JSC doesn't offer--might not be high. Some of the lower division courses of Mudd physics are GEs for HMC, so they're probably not open to off-campus students, but I think that's only one or two semesters of general physics. </p>
<p>I'm not really sure on the details of this aside from the fact that a physics major at Scripps would take the vast majority of her classes through the JSC, which would not be Scripps, specifically, but a program funded, employed, and operated by Scripps, CMC, and Pitzer. From what I know, it's a pretty strong program...I'm sure specific info is available on it through the school.</p>
<p>A Scripps physics major would not be allowed to take all of her physics classes through HMC or Pomona, because it tends to be frowned upon, taking the same classes that you could take at Scripps off-campus just because they ARE off-campus. I can't imagine it being a real issue, b/c the facilities would be readily available "on-campus" (JSC classes do not count as off-campus).</p>
<p>thank you for the information on the joint science program. could you please provide more details about it being hard to get money from scripps. also if you were to fly into lax from nyc does scripps or the 5c's provide any kind of transportation for its' students to the campus?</p>
<p>I personally haven't had first-hand experience with a lot of the financial issues of Claremont, so I'll preface this by saying that most of what I say is info garnered only through word-of-mouth or observation. First off, Scripps offers only one type of non-need based scholarship (the James E. Scripps scholarship), and it is available only to incoming freshman. There are no solely merit-based scholarships available after this through the school itself (there are department grants, research grants, fellowships, etc.). Financial aid tends to decrease after freshman year, but I don't know to what degree. Work-study programs are huge, but while there are non-work study campus jobs available, they're much farther between (that sounded a little confusing...point being that if you're non-work study, on-campus jobs are available, but in my opinion, far less-so and less appealingly). Apparently Scripps is notorious for being difficult in this area, because I read about it in at least one college book before attending, I'm sorry to not have more info. As far as I know, initial financial aid is given fairly generously and effectively.</p>
<p>The 5Cs do not provide any campus-sponsored airport transportation, no. The closest airport is Ontario, but it's smallish, so for an NYC flight, it would probably be cheapest to fly into LAX, as you say. I myself have used supershuttle and carpooled with other students to get to/from Ontario. Most students are able to communicate with one another to arrange airport carpools or split taxis. Especially since almost every time your daughter will be travelling will be around a time when most students are (winter break, spring break, etc.), it probably wouldn't be a difficult situation. I know a lot of people who fly in and find students at the airport to split taxis with (I personally like a little more advanced of a plan than that, but hey, it works for some). Also, odds are good that your daughter will make at least one close friend with a car, or friends with someone else who needs to go to LAX who has a friend with a car, so this is always advantageous. Getting rides from other people may lead to sitting around the airport for a little extra time, but I'm sure she would be able to find transportation. I'd advise you to also compare flight prices to/from Ontario airport, because this would be the easiest (around breaks, the airport is teeming with Claremont students).</p>
<p>Student615, I just found out today that I'm a scholarship finalist, so I get to spend a weekend in February at Scripps. I am very excited :)</p>
<p>Congratulations! Scholars weekend...I'll be one of those running around for that event. I hope you enjoy yourself :)</p>
<p>Student615, thank you for your informative responses! I came home today and I got a package from Scripps, thinking it was another viewbook, I opened it and hurray!!! I got in with the scholarship as well! I think there wasn't an interview because I'm an international student... So? But <em>sigh</em> I still need massive amounts of aid and the scholarship isn't enough. But tell me more about Scripps! The letter made my day! And g'luck to Kit416! I hope the scholarhsipthing turns out well!!! :)</p>
<p>Congratulations to you, too, fluffloooz! Hopefully, if Scripps turns out to be the school you want to attend, it will become more feasible once you receive your financial aid package. Claremont has a pretty good international student population (I don't know our statistics nor those of other schools off the top of my head, but I do know that I'm familiar with a lot of int'l students, so I'm kind of using that as a representative sample) and event program (if you haven't done so already, you might request information on International Place, aka I-Place...sort of the 5C international student center, I believe it's located on CMC). </p>
<p>If there's anything specific you'd like to hear or know about, I'm happy to tell you what I can. I don't know a lot about exactly what is required of or provided for international students, but I do have some close friends from out of country, so there's a chance I can share observations. </p>
<p>Congrats again to both of you (and anyone else) for being scholarship finalists :)</p>
<p>my daughter also was invited to scholar's weekend.can you tell us what you know about the weekend? can you tell us what you know about the intinerary? do you know if it is a hard sell weekend or if it is more laid back?</p>
<p>also do you know if the scholar's weekend is more of an opportunity for the college to sell itself to the candidates or is it more an evaluative situation where the college is sizing up the candidates potential and interest in the school?</p>
<p>Honestly, as of right now, I know very little about scholar's weekend. I'm pretty sure it's only composed of finalists for the James E. Scripps scholarship (<em>pretty</em> sure), there are a lot of "see/feel the campus" sort of events, most likely including lots of different tours (Scripps tour, 5C tour, perhaps specified tours of the athletic, science, or fine arts facilities), performances by student groups (I'm pretty sure some a cappella groups will be performing, maybe the comedy improv group), I'm guessing some talks on what the school is like, etc., probably a lot of different choice break-off activities/discussions. If I hear more about what will be going on, I'll pass on the info. I'm guessing the events are pretty packed in, but it's a casual event, and I imagine as laid back as any comparable sort of thing.</p>
<p>Also, I believe the weekend to be more of an opportunity for the college to sell itself rather than evaluate candidates. Interviews and such, if they happen, will surely be a part of the evaluation, but as far as "will people be evaluating me all the time, watching me in down-time," etc., I highly, highly doubt it. If someone sets the campus on fire or something, I'm guessing they'd make notes, but aside from that, I doubt it's a big deal. Also, prospective students are often in the company of current students who generally will never say anything, but many of whom, if witness to particularly disrespectful/unruly/rude/etc. behavior, will be willing to mention it to the admissions office. In general, I'd say it's a good time to be mindful of what you're saying and doing, and to be aware of the situation you are in and its potential to be evaluative, but I would definitely not worry about being nervous or on-guard. </p>
<p>By offering the scholarships to attendants of this event, the school has already decided that it would like to have these students in Claremont, so the next order of business is to convince the students that they'd like the same. The picture of the school will probably be pretty accurate, also, since we'd like to give a realistic portrayal of life at Scripps. Obviously, as an entire campus, we'd like students who'd like to be here, and giving an idealized, unrealistic picture of the school would be counterproductive to that purpose.</p>
<p>I don't know a lot about the weekend, and I apologize for that, but everyone I've talked to who's attended has said they really enjoyed it, and those I've worked with on planning certain aspects of it have also said that it's a lot of fun. Hope that proves true :-)</p>
<p>Hey student615,</p>
<p>Yesterday I got deferred EDII. :( Do you know if they deferred all ED applicants who weren't accepted or do they defer/reject/accept people from their ED pools? I was wondering because I was intially happy I got deferred but if everyone who didn't get acceptance ED got deferred, it really wouldn't say much about my application.</p>
<p>I honestly have no idea whether or not they defer/reject or just defer. Regardless, you still have another chance coming up at Scripps, and probably most of your applications still out for evaluation, so don't get too down on things yet :)</p>
<p>could anyone who attended the scholar's weekend describe what took place and provide your reaction to the weekend and to scripps.my daughter was scheduled to attend but at the last minute she learned she had a post season basketball game that was played on friday night. she will now travel to scripps next weekend.</p>
<p>I did some working at Scholars' Weekend, so while I can't give a first-hand prospective student perspective, I can tell you what I do know.</p>
<p>This may just be superfluous, b/c if your daughter was planning to attend, she may have already received schedules, etc, so I apologize if that's the case. Some events I know of off the top of my head were meals with students, "hanging out" around the campuses/village/dorms with students, campus tour, optional tours (science center, athletic facilities, 5Cs, SARLO, McAlister, art facilities), student panel, alumnae panel, movie night, karaoke in the Motley (student coffee shop), student performances (Without A Box comedy improv, Midnight Echo a cappella), and various interviews for individuals (with faculty, coaches, etc).</p>
<p>Things started out on an interesting note, as the students all arrived on Friday--quite in the midst of a flash flood! The campuses were all flooding, maintenance crews were everywhere, a few students even moved rooms for the weekend...it was madness unlike is usually seen in SoCal. Luckily it was all dried up by the next morning, and though things remained a bit cool and soggy and the landscaping was a bit helter-skelter in places, the weather was much nicer :) That was an unfortunate start to things, so consider the week delay a blessing in disguise in that respect.</p>
<p>From what I know, people seemed to have a pretty good time. The prospective students with whom I talked were all impressed and enjoying themselves, but I suppose I can't be sure how candid those accounts were, considering that I'm a current student. Nonetheless, they SEEMED honest!</p>
<p>I've heard about a number of students who were invited but unable to attend this weekend, and as far as I know, they've been well accomodated in terms of special tours and schedulings. I hope your daughter's basketball game went well and that she enjoys her trip out next weekend.</p>
<p>Oh, one thing to know is that next weekend is Family Weekend on 4Cs (all but Mudd). Because of this, there will be a number of special performances that she might try to catch (comedy improv, a cappella...on all the campuses), but there will also be a number of atypical events going on (catered meals, panels, etc.). Most of these are geared toward families and are covered by an attendance fee, but in lieu of her situation, you may want to either find or request a schedule for the families and see if there's anything that might interest your daughter, and, if so, talk to the school about permission for her to attend (or for you, should you happen to accompany her). I can't guarantee that that would work, but it may be worth a shot.</p>
<p>I may not have had much new info to add there, in which case I apologize, but congrats to your daughter, and I do hope she enjoys her visit next week.</p>
<p>Just got done interviewing my daughter before she went to bed exhausted. She had a great time there and was very impressed with the campus. The Scripps students that she met were very friendly and she enjoyed meeting them. Some showed them around their dorms and she said they were lovely. </p>
<p>Of course, coming from Alaska, she loved all the flowers and talked about the orange trees, (with oranges on them!). She had no complaints about the rain. Compared to the 10 degree weather 30 mph wind that welcomed her home it was nice. </p>
<p>She knows she really couldn't afford to attend there unless she got one of the few full ride scholarships. I asked if she would attend if they did offer her the scholarship and she said "for sure"! And that is over the standing offers for NMSF at other larger universities.</p>
<p>I went, and enjoyed it very much. It was WARM :) (and the professor I interviewed with told me it was some of the worst weather they'd had in a while). The people were all really really friendly, both the finalists and current students. Its still not my top choice (I dont know how much of a CA-girl I am), but I wouldnt be unhappy there either. Friday night, I went to a ballroom dancing class at Mudd with some other girls, and we learned the proper way to do the Argentinian tango. I was a little disappointed that we had to stay in a hotel instead of with students, but what with the excessive rain, I suppose it was for the best.</p>