Thanks, @SageMom - it’s all about fit, and evidently Scripps felt the fit was there. Scripps was not only the only women’s college she applied to, but also the only LAC. The balance between the College itself and the larger Consortium allowed her to consider a small, women’s LAC without giving up the assets of a mid-sized co-ed university. I think it’s going to be a best-of-both-worlds scenario for her. We’re in the Bay Area, so we may try to make it to the Danville meet-&-greet.
Have the dorm room assignments gone out? I keep asking my daughter but she says nothing has been posted. Maybe she isn’t looking in the right place?
Our daughter does not yet have her room assignment and neither do others in her admitted students and sports team group chats. She is getting pretty anxious and so am I. I hope they will hear tomorrow.
Nothin’ here yet either. My D said one student on FB reported getting notified that she was placed in the CGU apartments (where 40 freshmen are being housed) and getting a personal phone call to give them more detail. It seems to me that they’re notifying the kids who are assigned to the apartments first. (And perhaps backing down if the parents get particularly upset and push back?) My suspicion is that they want to get those 40 apartment assignments nailed down before committing to everybody else’s dorm assignments. I could be wrong, but that’s how it looks from what I’ve heard. What’s confusing to me is that a screenshot of an email - promising housing assignments this week and explaining about the CGU apartments - was posted on Twitter, but neither my D nor I received that email. Not sure why it wouldn’t have gone to everybody.
I heard that they have over admitted by 80 students and they are asking Sophomore to accept housing in the apartments. Hmmm…hopefully they will hear soon!!! Please post if anyone hears anything! Thanks!!
Yes, @SageMom - earlier in the summer they were offering some fairly anemic incentives (IMHO) for upperclassmen to move to the apartments. Official materials said sophomores but I have heard anecdotal reports of seniors getting calls about it as well. Now they are stating that 40 freshmen will be housed in the apartments, which suggest that the upperclassmen weren’t as receptive as they hoped to this campaign. (Again IMHO, offering more than $500 in Claremont Cash per semester and the promise of housing priority the following year would probably have been necessary to dislodge people from their hard-won dorm assignments.) http://inside.scrippscollege.edu/reslife/volunteertoliveoff The apartments aren’t terribly far from campus, and they look relatively spacious compared to the forced triples our freshman will likely get in the dorms. My D isn’t entirely averse to the idea. But it doesn’t seem ideal for first-years vs. being fully immersed in campus life in the dorms. (And lets face it, if the apartments were a real score, the upperclassmen would have grabbed them and this “plan B” wouldn’t have been necessary!)
Wow! Thanks for the update! Yeah, my daughter probably won’t mind either but it would be nice to be with her Freshman class! Either way, I hope they notify her soon. She is so anxious to find out!!
My D just graduated from Scripps. The offer (according to the website linked by @aquapt) was to "Returning Scripps students who are assigned to a double room ". That’s going to be primarily sophomores. By the time they are juniors and seniors most have a single. I suspect they targeted those in a double room to free up doubles for the first years.
Putting first years in singles probably wasn’t desirable.
@Sagemom - if they are putting a bunch of first years in the apartments then she will be with many from her class, so it probably won’t be bad in that respect.
Right, @ClaremontMom - the official communications referred just to returning students in doubles - but I know of at least two seniors in suites who got calls, after the initial round of requests failed to attract the desired response. The incentives simply weren’t very generous, and the returning students liked the accommodations they already had. So now it’ll be a little colony of 40 freshmen off-campus. It isn’t terrible - at least they’ll be a big enough group to comprise a little community unto themselves, and the distance to campus isn’t that bad. But obviously if this were the most desirable outcome, the Scripps housing folks could have skipped the whole stage of trying to get upperclassmen to move. In my view, if the intent was to move sophomores out of doubles and then re-purpose those doubles as freshman forced-triples, without discounting the housing rate for those freshman, then there should have been enough money rolling in to offer a meaningful cash incentive for those who moved. But obviously I’m just piecing together information from outside the process, so maybe I’m missing something.
Room assignments came out in the middle of last night on the portal but not names of roommates. Our daughter says some are starting to find each other on group chats and social media. She is very glad to at least have information about where she will be.
Thank you! Yes, my daughter was thrilled to get some info on where she will be assigned. She is in New Hall second floor (can’t remember the room #). I’m sure she will hit the social media sites for roommate info. Thanks again!!