<p>I have refused to look over my ED I application for quite a few days. But yesterday, I read my "Why Scripps?" essay and found a mistake. Ba-humbug! Now I have made it a serious goal to not look over any other application material until I get my decision, or else I am sure I will run into the admissions office in the middle of the night, get my application out of the drawer, and replace it with an edited version. Anyway, my question here is : </p>
<p>Does anyone know what the acceptance letter or rejection letter from Scripps College looks like?</p>
<p>I know I still have more than a month of wait time but I still want to know what I'm looking for in the next coming weeks. I think that if I get a small letter (rejection), I'll just throw it away and not give it a second thought.</p>
<p>Don't throw away a thin envelope! That could possibly still be a deferral letter. Although being deferred probably isn't what you are hoping for, it isn't necessarily bad news, because you could still get in later on. I was deferred ED II and got in RD. And I am at Scripps now! YAY! In the spring I got a big envelope with the Scripps logo on the front - I knew I had gotten in!</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, I'm exactly the same way; I've submitted everything and I just can't stop thinking about my essay or my supplement while thinking, "I should have put this, I should have put that..."
But yeah, I really just want to get accepted ED1 and be done with everything, I'm so nervous after reading all these posts about Scripps since it's the only school I could ever imagine myself at.</p>
<p>Seriously, me too! I think that if I don't get in, I'll try again as a transfer after a year or two. Any other school will not work for me. I just know it.</p>
<p>Well, I've been researching this school for more than a year and the more I've learned about it, the more I've felt like all its resources and characteristics were tailored to my character and what I want and need out of a college. </p>
<p>The co-ed consortium, senior thesis, core program (writing 50), great pre-med advisory, medical school acceptance rate, frequent guest speakers, financial aid, and humanities concentration are some general factors that I like.</p>
<p>Some other non-academic aspects of the school I liked were the dorms (amazing common room!), the food, the plethora of art around the campus, distance to home, Scripps tea, and the Motley.</p>
<p>I also love green (the school's color) and the fact that students and the administration are not so distanced as they are in large schools. They have a say on what kind of events are planned and what they want to happen in campus. </p>
<p>And, obviously, I like that it's a women's college. </p>
<p>Of course, these are all very general characteristics that you can look up online (as I have). There is much, much more. </p>
<p>Oh! the secretary is really nice, too. And they give you free meal cards if you go visit the campus. Whoot!</p>
<p>I applied ED II so the application was due on January 1st, and I was supposed to hear on February 1st but I got a letter in mid-January telling me I was deferred. I got the acceptance letter in the regular decision pool on the last day of March.</p>
<p>I'm confident I want to go to Scripps as my first choice for the atmosphere, the academics, and the opportunities afforded to their students.
When I visited in October I came across so many friendly students; literally, not one was rude to me. I'm also a recruit for one of the CMS teams, and so frequently are recruits shunned by teams that it can seem intimidating, but I felt completely accepted. I stayed overnight and was welcomed by my host and her friends. These people were strangers to me, but despite my unfamiliarity with them, they were unbelievably friendly.
The academics are stellar. I've talked to so many students and they've all agreed that Core is very helpful in their studies later on in college. I've heard writing 50 isn't as helpful, but that's only in freshman year. The professors in the department I'm interested in are great. Coming from a small high school, I appreciate the small class sizes offered. The consortium is also an appetizing aspect of Scripps; the small college atmosphere with the same offerings of a large university. The opportunities are pretty much endless.
From a social standpoint, Scripps is a primarily quiet campus, but the other campuses provide parties and students with other ideas.
Scripps is unlike any other womens' college, too. The traditions, the consortium, the students... nothing is typical about it compared to other colleges.</p>
<p>And that, Shrinkrap, is why I want to go to Scripps.</p>
<p>Well done! Your small high school...how small? ( my d's graduating class is 89, but class size wasn't especially small). I think you are saying you've liked your small school? If you don't mind saying, anything else come close? Scripps is still my d's number one, but financially it's a bit of a reach for us.</p>
<p>My high school provides small classes, at most 20 kids in each, so I can appreciate the small class sizes Scripps provides, yet going out into the consortium and experiencing an area with 5,000 other students would be welcome to me. I've heard from an alumna that there is a community feeling among the Scripps girls in each class; they have to go through Core together, so it's like a bonding experience between sisters. That said, my class isn't actually all that small compared to some private schools; I think it's about 180?
Unfortunately, nothing else comes close, which is a shame because it makes the possibility of deferral/rejection more distressing than it should be.
It is a financial reach for my family, as well, especially travel costs.</p>