<p>I would definitely recommend Drake or Novy as writing profs.</p>
<p>EDII is for students who decide later on in the app process that Scripps is their first choice. If you apply EDII it sets you apart as enthusiastic and committed to attending Scripps.</p>
<p>Re Writing 50: Not everyone on Ratemyprofessor seems incredibly fond of Drake. Why would you recommend her?</p>
<p>What do you guys think about Culbert or Simeroth?</p>
<p>The negative reviews are probably from her Core class, which is team-taught and I haven’t heard the best things about it. However, she’s my adviser, so I work really closely with her, and took Writ 100: Arts and Culture Review Writing with her last spring. I’d highly recommend her for Writing or English classes (though not core) because you’ll learn a lot. She’s no easy grader, and expects a lot from her students, but she’s a great discussion leader and gives very helpful feedback on papers. Even if you’re a competent writer already, you would be encouraged to improve in her class. </p>
<p>I’ve (vaguely) heard good things about Simeroth, though I’ve no experience with her, and know nothing about Culbert.</p>
<p>Bumping this for future prospectives.</p>
<p>This summer Scripps launched a new Admissions website: [Scripps</a> College](<a href=“http://think.scrippscollege.edu/]Scripps”>http://think.scrippscollege.edu/)</p>
<p>It’s super pretty, and has a new admission blog which is updated every Monday.</p>
<p>Bumping this again. Everyone’s very excited about the Scripps College Academy being recognized by Michelle Obama: [Scripps</a> College : Scripps College Academy: 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award winners](<a href=“http://scrippscollege.edu/sca2010/]Scripps”>http://scrippscollege.edu/sca2010/)</p>
<p>Congratulations, Scripps. Very impressive. So this is for what exactly- teaching kids how to read?</p>
<p>Scripps students are combating educational inequality. Congratulations, you’re ■■■■■■■■ internet forums.</p>
<p>The Scripps Academy does not “teach kids how to read.” That’s factually incorrect.</p>
<p>As to the claims about the quality of education being “objective,” I disagree on your assessment and I disagree on the claim that such a thing is quantifiable, let alone objectively proven. YMMV, clearly.</p>
<p>While your experiences are germane to the discussion, you are only one data point. Your experiences may or may not illustrate universal truths. I would guess that your experiences are most likely influenced by your geographic location and the kinds of jobs you are seeking. This may not be all that relevant to a prospective Scripps student who is planning on a completely different career. With all due respect, I might also speculate that your views are shaped by the fact that you are a recent graduate. Many people more advanced in their careers may have different perspectives about the importance of undergraduate prestige.</p>
<p>Prestige is tempered by finances. I fell in love with Scripps and it helped that they offered a heap load more in Fin. Aid over Wellesley. So, if only the people who can afford it can go to prestigious institutions, they’ll wind up with higher paying jobs because they went to a prestigious institution. Regardless of what people at the moment in the non-academic post-grad world think about the validity of degrees from certain institutions, if you choose to propagate these ideas, then you’re playing into a system that perpetuates a socio-economic divide. One may have it easier if going to a recognized LAC, but that does not make it “better.”</p>
<p>The quality of education is irrelevant here. I am saying the reputation of the education is. While you are applying to/in undergrad they try to convince you otherwise but once you hit the real world you quickly see that this is not true. The reputation is quantifiable. Look at review books, this site itself which does NOT list Scripps/Pitzer as top schools (while some other poorly regarded schools are listed in the batch of top) and look at admissions statistics. Admissions rates and GPA/SAT ranges alone tell the story.</p>
<p>If I wasn’t able to get my foot in the door I wouldnt have a career to begin with. With Pomona it was hard enough- Scripps would have been damn near impossible</p>
<p>Such is reality. Sorry. I didn’t make the system but like you and everyone else i have to play by the rules. Besides, Wellesley is need blind so they would have given you what you needed- that argument doesn’t hold water. Even if you argue that becuase I don’t know your situation, the fact remains that if your stats had been better they would have given you more money. I know two girls on full rides to Wellesley in fact. </p>
<p>Regardless, people with more money will have it easier and that is reality. You can rage against the system or figure out how to work within it. Your call. Your raging against it makes things easier for me and eventually when I’m in charge I’ll be able to actually change it instead of just raging.</p>
<p>At that point, you’ll have made it work for you, so why would you bother to change it? Would you remember why you cared to change it in the first place?</p>
<p>I do think so because I hope my children will follow the LAC route b/c I do think it offers a better education and don’t want them to face the same handicaps I did, but that is irrelevant to the point at hand. </p>
<p>What I have been saying this entire time and you have failed to address is that a Scripps degree will not even get halfway to arching an eyebrow on one’s resume. It is fine and great if you can afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars and four years on an academic experience or plan to go into academia (the only two situations in which a Scripps degree is not a completely unsuitable credential) but if either of these are the case then you are in the minority.</p>
<p>Ultimately the system will not change in the short term and it is wrong and misleading for you to influence prospective students without making this point clear. When you say you get a great education students don’t realize that the Scripps’ ranking is at the bottom of the heap and that even if it were at the top of LAC lists they would be fighting an uphill battle to get their foot in the door.</p>
<p>Well, then you should allow Scripps grads to share their own experiences in that arena, rather than interpreting what you think, or what you’ve heard, Scripps students face after leaving.</p>
<p>They are more than welcome to chime in. In their absence I think my experience is in fact very relevant as Pomona and Scripps have very similar opportunities due to the nature of the 5C’s and that the relative difficulty I had (although I got past it) will only be worse for a Scripps student given the latter college’s poorer reputation.</p>
<p>Not sure why you have so many issues with Scripps and Pitzer - but I agree with the other posters. Instead of posting as fact your personal anecdotal experiences with a few Scripps students, perhaps you should stick with your own first-hand experience at Pomona. If you have been unhappy with outcomes, it may be due to a variety of factors - your own academic experience, this current economy, an increasingly competitive job environment, etc. I have three children who have chosen to attend LACs (that’s another discussion) - Swarthmore, Carleton, and Scripps - and, by the way, the Scripps student would have been great at Swarthmore, Carleton, Pomona, or Wellesley - but she decided to go for the amazing merit aid at Scripps. I can’t imagine that her two older siblings will be saying anything about the relative prestige of specific schools as they are paying off student loans and she graduates with no debt.</p>
<p>What I have seen with my own children and many other students over the years - is that their success is based less on the relative prestige of the undergraduate experience and more on what they have done with that experience. It’s more about the student than the school. I think it’s a little sad that you’re still so caught up in the high school phase, talking about which school has a place on the CC list - my goodness! Go out and do something worthwhile with your ‘prestigious’ Pomona degree and let these students live their own lives. If they are serious students (and I can guarantee you my daughter is serious - along with much of the incoming freshman class), they are going to make the most of their education at Scripps.</p>
<p>1) I was involved in many 5C organizations and was exposed to a very significant number of Scripps/Pitzer students through social and academic events as well. I am very well qualified to post my experiences as facts attesting to my perceptions and experiences, and those perceptions will see agreement from at least 7/10 students who do not attend Scripps or Pitzer.
2) I am very happy with my outcome, however I am simply pointing out here (as I have noted earlier many times- please read my posts before attacking me) that the issue of reputation which the LACs and helicopter parents such as yourself with vested interests in the schools tend to gloss over is in fact important and should be considered.
3) That was her choice to trade debt for a relatively poorer credential. Other students should be given the opportunity to make an informed decision, not for my posts to simply be dismissed because they offend your sensibilities. I realize that like all other parents’ children, your daughter is super intelligent, an incredibly hard worker, and an amazing candidate for any institution, but compared to other schools, Scripps as a whole is not made up of that type of student. Before you dispute that, please compare SAT and class rank ranges between “Top” and “not Top” schools as ranked by third parties and then see where Scripps falls.
4) It is very impressive that your children have done well. Congratulations. That indicates that either they got a very lucky break, they spent time and took out loans (or you paid for) prestigious graduate schools, or you have connections. These are not reliable options for the majority that will be handicapping itself with a substandard degree.
5) Rankings are not a “high school phase” rather I am more invested in my schools rank now that its credential is tied to me than I was when choosing between schools. I don’t understand how you can dismiss that so easily, other than as a helicopter parent well into your career you don’t need to care. You fail to realize that the students making their choices are much closer to my situation than yours.
6) I’ve only spent time during market lulls to post on this site.
7) It’s good that your daughter and her friends will make the most of their education. That said, this doesn’t change the realities that I’ve already stated. Give them my best wishes for success, they’ll need something other than a Scripps degree behind them to compete in the real world.</p>
<p>N.B. Before responding keep in mind that my experience entails my own job search and watching friends from each of the 5C’s go through their own. Unless you have similar experience, my anecdotes are worth infinitely more than your assertions.</p>
<p>My SAT subject test scores were lower than expected. I used one of my free score reports to report my scores to Scripps. If they don’t require them, how will they view them?</p>
<p>I’m seriously freaking out. One score isn’t too bad, but the other is embarrassing.</p>
<p>I know this thread is old, but I’m hoping some old posters will reply and help me out. I just finished my first year at Smith and have been accepted to transfer to Scripps. Scripps seems like an amazing step up (in terms of what I’m looking for) from Smith: a women’s college with so many more options to make male friends. However, Scripps told me when I was accepted that they were unable to provide on-campus housing for incoming transfers, so I’ll have to find my own apartment off campus. I’m really worried that this, combined with entering as a transfer, will make integrating into the community much more difficult and even make transferring not worthwhile. Could anyone weigh in on how detrimental living off-campus might be?</p>