<p>Hey, I was just wondering what the likelihood of being accepted into Scripps is. I've looked into Scripps and I'm just getting more and more in love with it, but I want to know if I have a substantial chance.</p>
<p>current asian junior at a Washington public school
from a middle class family
first two years of high school were in an Oregon public school</p>
<p>GRADES
3.917 unweighted cumulative GPA
40/503 class rank</p>
<p>3 B's so far:
1 in Health freshman year
2/3 trimesters of AP US History sophomore year (was B, B, then A)</p>
<p>3/6 AP classes currently
AP Calculus AB
AP English Literature
AP Psychology</p>
<p>taking 5/6 AP classes senior year
AP English Language
AP Biology
AP Environmental Sciences
AP Statistics
AP Economics</p>
<p>ACTIVITIES
cross country jv (2 years) - most inspirational
swimming jv (2 years) - stopped due to change in schools and state
Key Club (3 years) - historian last year, vice president next year
Diversity Committee (2 years) - secretary this year, possible vice president
NHS (1 year) - will be for senior year most likely. I couldn't do it junior year because since I changed schools, it was a policy that I had to be at my current school for at least a semester.</p>
<p>I also am trying to start up a STAND chapter at my school. If it goes through, I'll be running that for its first year in my senior year.</p>
<p>TESTING</p>
<p>610 critical reading
660 writing
700 math</p>
<p>(I'm really trying to work on these. I seem to never do well on standardized testing. I can always manage to do alright, but never in that top teir (700+) and I'm really trying. Especially on that stupid critical reading and the writing too. I'm hoping the next time I take it, most likely in October, I can get a good writing prompt.)</p>
<p>640 on SAT U.S. History subject test</p>
<p>4 on AP US History exam
5 (predicted) on AP Calculus AB exam
4/5 (predicted) on AP Psychology exam</p>
<p>WORK</p>
<p>I haven't done any continuous, regular volunteering. Usually my volunteering is through Key Club. I recently moved right before junior year so adjusting to the change has been difficult and it's been a slow process. I am going to start volunteering at the hospital this summer and through my senior year. And I might, most likely, will try and get a job this summer. The last time I worked was in middle school and freshman year at Kumon, being a tutor for math and reading. I stopped because of time conflicts with sports.</p>
<p>And some random questions....</p>
<p>How good is their aid? I've read some past posts, and I've heard about the JES scholarship, but I know considering my stats and the amazing people out there, I don't really plan on that being a given. Other than outside scholarships, how good is their financial package though? My parents are really set on me going to an in-state school, UWashington really, but I don't want to go there. I really want that small school feel that an LAC would have, but costs are a really big issue. My parents won't pay the big bucks unless it's somewhere like Stanford or an Ivy League, which realistically I don't have that great a chance of. They're already paying for my brother's UWashington tuition, and his freshman year costs are out-of-state prices right now. I've looked at Evergreen State (a public liberal arts) in Washington, but the atmosphere there is something I don't think I'd fit in with (i.e. the majority of people who go there are pretty much the same type of people, and I would like a vast range of diversity). So anyways, I'm just wondering, because I am a middle-class student, and so it is a bit harder to receive aid, how helpful is their aid package?</p>
<p>And another question: how does it really feel being an all-girls school? I've always wondered this, and while I don't really mind it (because I know it is part of the Claremont colleges so you will have interaction), but I am kind of apprehensive about it and wondering what it's like?</p>