chances at Scripps?

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<p>D has made what she says is her final list. What are her chances at Scripps?</p>

<p>D is a rising senior from a relatively small, relatively poor, rural district in Texas. </p>

<p>2160 New SAT, 730CR, 740Math, 690W (same sitting), 32 ACT w/ a 36 Math. Currently 1/140. 4.64w,4.0/4.0uw.</p>

<p>Toughest courseload available including several college level (and EPGY BC Calc). School only offers two AP's for junior year, 4 in Lit and a 5 in AB Calc. 7 best in school awards: for Math (3 times), English (2), Physics (1),and Chemistry (1). (all honors sections, or AP)</p>

<p>4 year Varsity Basketball starter, 2 year Co-captain on Area Championship Team. Extensive Summer Basketball experience every year.</p>

<p>Marching Band and Symphonic Band Section and Line Leader on State Ranked Band (2 years officer, member all 4), State Qualifier -UIL Solo and Ensemble as a Tuba Player in a Bass Quartet.</p>

<p>Girl's State delegate, and minor elected official.</p>

<p>Regional Sixth Place Math UIL Competition and Math Team Co-captain (2 years)- District Champion (1), 3rd place large Invitational Math Tournament. </p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer (100 hours), community volunteering , school volunteering including tutoring at risk kids and hearing impaired kids for several hundred hours.</p>

<p>Part-time work: Raises sheep and goats of her own for her spending money. Lives on a ranch and performs general ranchhand activities for additional pay.</p>

<p>Normal boring Student Government, club, or organization stuff that probably won't make it to the app.</p>

<p>Rec's should be very good to exceptional, essays will be good.</p>

<p>Thanks, 3 more to go.LOL</p>

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<p>Her chances look incredibly good to me. Make sure she submits her application before the November 1st scholarship deadline (if it's ready) because I think she has a shot at being a finalist. Let me know if you (or she!) have any more questions!</p>

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<p>zeusviolin, if you'll look back, it was your wonderful posts that helped Scripps climb out of the dark of a guidebook and into the light. I owe you a great debt of gratitude. Thanks again.</p>

<p>Oh, yeah. And that weasel-y kid of mine says thanks ,too.</p>

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<p>Curmudgeon, Ditto what zeusviolin says! Your daughter would seem to be an excellent candidate for Scripps. She has great stats and strong ec's. She appears to be the kind of well rounded applicant Scripps is looking for. In addition, being a ranch gal from Texas will also catch the adcom's fancy. Again, be sure to get the application in by Nov. 1st. My daughter is a J.E. Scripps scholar and really enjoyed the scholarship weekend. She came home from the weekend with Scripps at the top of her list. Has your daughter filled out the sports recruiting forms on the web site? I'm not sure how the basketball coach is but I have heard that the cross country and track coach is very responsive. My experience so far has been that everyone is very friendly and helpful. Best of luck with the process. I am also going thru the process again this year with daughter number 2. She wants to be an engineer, so she is so far looking at Harvey Mudd, USC, University of Arizona (good merit money for National Merit) and maybe, maybe an ivy. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.</p>

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<p>yep, she has sent the basic contact type info in about two weeks ago. She sent her scores in from the SAT a while back. We're on the way. Now , where I can't tell you -but we are moving and that's a good thing. Standing still was grating on her nerves.</p>