Official Class of 2017 Scripps College Decisions

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<p>Let's post the decisions only for future reference/anyone who is curious. Please use the typical format for the decisions.</p>

<p>The format is as follows:</p>

<p>DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE SPACES AFTER BRACKETS</p>

<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted*[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected*[/color][/size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[list]
[ ] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other[list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[ *] Intended Major:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:*</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (690 CR, 710 M, 800 W)
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Lit, 660 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.72
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Psych (5), English Lang (4), World History (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, Intensive Greek 1-3, Mandarin 3, Psychology, English 4 Honors
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing special
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Freelance photographer, blogger, Bar Method, took PreCalc and Calc outside of school
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Public Relations Intern at ModCloth
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200 hours or so
[<em>] Summer Activities: ESL teacher, camp counselor, worked at ModCloth, went to a selective writer’s program and took a course in C++
[</em>] Essays: Good, but very last minute
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One of them was probably excellent, the other was generic.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: One of his better recs
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
[</em>] Intended Major: Psychology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private prep school
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: High enough to not need FA
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Essays and such
[<em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: My backstory, my writing abilities
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not enough demonstrated interest
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted Carleton, Kenyon, Pitzer, Whitman. Rejected Rice, WUSTL, Bowdoin. Waiting on Stanford, Brown, Wesleyan.
[/ul]General Comments: Probably won’t be accepting a spot on the wait list. Carleton looks like the school for me.</p>

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<p>[size=+2]Decision: Accepted<a href=“JES%20scholarship”>/size</a></p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send
[</em>] ACT: 34. 36 E, 36 R, 34 M, 31 S
[<em>] SAT II: didn’t send
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang/Comp 5, Calc BC 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Chamber Choir, AP Comp Gov, Number Theory, AP Physics C, AP English Lit, Theology, AP Spanish V
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, co-recipient of large grants with my volunteer group, school English and Spanish awards sophomore year
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School choir all four years and earned varsity letter last year and went to state. Selective metropolitan youth choir all four years. Tae kwon do since before sophomore year. Went to the 2011 Ignatian Teach-In at Georgetown. Cast member of the school musical in 2011. NHS member. Spanish NHS Activities Officer.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked as receptionist in 2011 and finance intern in 2012 for an IT firm.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Co-founder of a volunteer organization dedicated to bringing science education to underprivileged students. We’ve been featured on the news and in print several times and have won major grants both years we’ve been active. Several cancer/AMA walks and events with or in honor of loved ones.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Emerging Leader/CIT in highly selective leadership program at a camp for gifted youth. Service trip to El Salvador in 2011.
[</em>] Essays: Common App was really good, a little too long but good. Scripps essays were good.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should have been really good, from my AP Calc BC and AP English Lang teachers. I did my best work in their classes and got on really well with both the teachers.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read and didn’t know my counselor that well. Must have been alright haha
[<em>] Additional Rec: From a Newbery Honor winning author who’s one of the fellows at the camp I go to and as such she’s known me for years and years. I read it and it was very sweet and I think they’d like it.
[</em>] Interview: It was good, pretty brief but it went fine.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Politics and Intl Relations
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): OR
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Private college prep
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: wouldn’t qualify for FA
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Unusual family circumstances, co-founded volunteer organization
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: ECs, classes, grades
[<em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: focused a lot on my volunteer organization and on my family circumstances and diversity (not ethnic haha)
[</em>] Weaknesses: the interview was so-so
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: good profile, showed interest
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to University of Portland, University of St Andrews, University of Rochester, Boston University, Rice University, George Washington University Honors Program and Northwestern University. Deferred then rejected from UChicago.
[/ul]General Comments: good luck everyone.</p>

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<p>[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted**[/color][/size]</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT: 29- 33M, 27S, 30E, 26R, 10E
[<em>] SAT II: 730 Chem, 670 ML1
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7-3.8 (93/100)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 21/241
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP calc, AP Govt, AP Eng Lit, Robotics, Psychology, Spanish 4, Sociology
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): QuestBridge Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science Technology Entry Program (Student Ambassador + Science Bowl Team Captain), Robotics Club (President 11/12), FIRST robotics (Student rep 11/12), Science Club (President 11/12), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (President 12), Marching Band (Treasurer 11)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Babysitting for 3 years
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Medical Explorers
[<em>] Summer Activities: E2@MIT, CURIE Academy
[</em>] Essays: Thought my essays were actually good. Ah well
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good/Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: didn’t have one.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY (Upstate)
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic (Puerto Rican)
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: <30K
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, QuestBridge
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Subjective Stuff
[<em>] Weaknesses: Numbers.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Kiiind of expected.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Cornell (likely), Amherst (Early Write), UVa, Haverford, Carnegie (SCS/CIT), and Wellesley. Rejected at MIT, UChicago, Rice, Notre Dame, Carleton, and Northwestern. Waitlisted at Colorado College, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Scripps, and Grinnell.[/li][/ul]General Comments:
o.O</p>

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<p>@awkwardpenguin13
you sound like an awesome candidate at any school, and you should be proud. Wellesley and Cornell would be lucky to have you.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted
James E. Scholarship Recipient! </p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (680 M, 730 CR, 770 W)
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 18/224 (top 10%)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), Euro (3), English Lang (5), US Govt (4), Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Diploma Candidate - Chem SL (4), Spanish SL (4), Math SL (equivalent of AB Calc), Psych HL, English HL, History HL
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: HL Psych, HL English, HL History, SL Math/Calculus 1, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, Theory of Knowledge (required IB course). Guidance counselor checked ‘most rigorous’ box.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF, though I’m not sure I ever informed them of anything beyond NMSF?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
– Theater grades 9-12 - stage manager, director, lighting designer/technician (won Best Lights at a District One Act Festival)
– SGA grades 9-12 - Treasurer, Senator, Senator, Student Body President
– Beta Club grades 11-12 - Secretary
– National Honors Society
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Bussing tables at a chain restaurant 12-16 hours a week.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at a summer day camp the summers of 2009 and 2010, and all of the proceeds of our spring musical last year that I directed and stage managed went to charity.
[<em>] Summer Activities: See volunteer work, otherwise it wasn’t much (though I did take courses over virtual school that bled into the school year in 2011 and 2012).
[</em>] Essays: Excellent, I thought. One focused on the charity production I did last spring. The “Why Scripps?” short answer - looking at it now - was kinda overwrought but I meant every word, and I’m sure they ate it up. Supplemental essay was about how I come from theater, what it’s done for me and to me, etc. It was heartfelt and I had fun letting my creative writing skill show.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: The one I read was glowing, if somewhat bordering on generic. The other one, which I didn’t read, was likely very good - he likes to focus less on the student and more as the person and I can assume that only helped me.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably the least generic recommendation she wrote all year - I’m in her office all the time, she loves me, she’ll bend over backward for me to make sure I’m all taken care of.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: technically yes, but they’re missing quite a few documents… the next month will be filled with phone calls to FA offices across the country. Heh.
[</em>] Intended Major: Media Studies and/or something in the humanities; likely Politics.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[</em>] School Type: National Blue Ribbon public junior/senior high school, with the both the full IBDP and AP classes available.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: 150k +
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ACT score, essays, recs, leadership
[</em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: I focused heavily on theater, tried to show how passionate I can be when I find something I love.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Downward trend in grades (all A’s 9th/10th that slipped to A’s and B’s in 11th/12th), lack of strong volunteer involvement.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think I showed them how passionate I can be, how much I love this school… I think, on paper and in person, I had everything they were looking for (I sound so conceited but I do think it’s true…).
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at New College of FL, UF, Columbia College Chicago (Honors), Emerson College (Honors), Northeastern University (Honors), Boston University. Waitlisted at Kenyon (still don’t quite understand that but eh). Rejected at Pomona (saw that one coming - so grateful I didn’t fall in love with it the way I did Scripps). [/li][/ul]General Comments:
Scripps was already one of my top choices and now with this I can say it’s probably in the top three. So so ecstatic to be named a JES Scholarship recipient - I got the email last night and my cheeks hurt I was smiling so hard. My dad’s pretty excited about the idea of a paid trip to SoCal (our other college visits to Boston and NYC were out-of-pocket), and gah I’m just so pleased. Congrats to everyone else who got in and to everyone else: I wish you the best and I hope you end up someplace you love.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): didnt send
[</em>] ACT: 29 superscore
[<em>] SAT II: n/a
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.79 UW 3.95 W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 25%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro-3 AP US-4 AP lang-4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: College level french, college level history, college level english, government/economics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/a
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity swimming and rowing, some theater, (didn’t have that many extracurriculars)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
Swim instructor and lifeguard three summers in a row.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteered at a hospital, joined numerous service clubs, national honor society.
[<em>] Summer Activities:
working
[</em>] Essays: my common app essay was decent. My supplement was pretty good, I talked about my family and our positive relationship with each other.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I had one from my english teacher and one from my french teacher, they should be pretty good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably good, didn’t read.
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview:n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[</em>] Intended Major: undecided
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):OR
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths:My writing style, my senior course load
[<em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself:
[</em>] Weaknesses:My stats, didn’t interview
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m surprised actually but I think they could tell I would be a good fit for the college.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Occidental College and University of Puget Sound. Waitlisted at Colorado College
[/ul]General Comments:
I’m pretty surprised but very excited! Scripps it probably at the top of my list because I love the 5C’s and everything else about it. Good luck to everyone else!</p>