Tough decision, @ACollegeFan ! I grew up in NoVa - and used to go to summer music camps at W&M - great public U’s there. I actually thought W&M would be a great fit for my older D - and she was accepted there - but the OOS cost wouldn’t have been much less than Rice, where she ended up going.
Sounds like a lot of it is coming down to the big school vs. small school question for both of our kids. There’s no way my D would consider a school the size of Scripps (and even more so a single-gender school, about which she’s still a little dubious) if it were a stand-alone. Best-case, Scripps may offer the best of both worlds - the benefits of a small, women’s college without giving up the resources and larger social circle of a mid-sized co-ed university. But D will have to size up, firsthand, how it really feels to be there. We’re close enough to get back down to LA for the admitted students day, if she feels after the overnight that it would be worth missing school for. But that’s a question for after next week’s visit; one step at a time. 