Yes, last year they admitted about 950 and ended up with over 300 in the class when they were aiming for 250. So I’d guess they accepted more like 850 or so this year or maybe fewer. It all depends on what they think their yield rate will be. Probably end up around 28 to 30% acceptance rate (??) but that’s just an educated guess. Still, congrats to all and I do agree there will likely be more dipping into WL this year!
I find it bizarre that they are publishing “stats” of this sort, so early. Just because their target is 252 doesn’t mean that having made offers of admission warrants a press release touting the attributes of those who will decide to attend. Somebody’s zest for PR (and graphic design) is running way ahead of their common sense.
Actually… you know what? The apparent date on this press release updates to the current date every day. (i.e. yesterday it said 3/25 - today it says 3/26) But… I’m pretty sure it is old. I believe this is data from 4 years ago, about the class that is GRADUATING this year in 2018.
The total of “over 2700” applicants is too low to be current. They got 2841 applications last year. And all this detail about the entering class… it was compiled after the class was finalized. Hence the precise numbers.
Scripps is big on this “exciting profile of the class” thing. The whole welcome speech last year consisted almost entirely of these kinds of statistics. (We have TEN JULIAS and FIVE SAMANTHAS! And so on, and so on, ad nauseum.) http://www.scrippscollege.edu/news/features/meet-the-scripps-college-class-of-2021 It’s cute in a graphic but really dull and disappointing in a welcome speech (heads-up, Scripps, if anyone monitors these boards, lol!).
Bottom line - we don’t have admissions stats for this year yet. But there may be an article like this one in a couple of weeks. (Note the anomalously high admit rate last year for Scripps - a repeat of that should not be expected.) http://tsl.news/news/6726/
When is admitted students day for the class of 2022?
April 19-20!
FYI, this article confirms increased use of the waitlist this year, and has some interesting news about next year’s housing strategy. http://tsl.news/news/7510/
Thanks for posting the article @aquapt. My D has filled me in on some of what’s been going on. I do feel for the students housed at CGU and think they should have housing priority over rising sophomores. But I think rising seniors and juniors should still have priority over them.
Yes, @Marcie123 - my feeling is that Scripps rather bungled this year’s housing crunch. They should have taken the hit and done what they needed to do to make this year’s solution inherently fair (i.e. eating the cost of sufficient incentives to entice willing volunteers to live off campus), rather than kicking the fairness can down the road with promises of housing priority that would in turn be unfair to the upperclassmen. Now they’re in a situation where they cannot possibly be fair to everyone.
None of which affects my D directly, as she will be at the bottom of the priority barrel regardless, lol… but I agree that the upperclassmen who are losing their priority have a right to be upset. They turned down a laughably bad “incentive” offer to move off campus themselves, and now they’re essentially being punished for that. If I had to guess, I would say that the housing folks are at least low-key resentful that this year’s sophomores and juniors didn’t cooperate with the appeal to move to the apartments, thus precipitating the whole PR mess they’ve had to deal with over the off-campus freshmen. But… those students didn’t take the offer because it was a bad offer. Somebody (probably more senior than the housing folks themselves) refused to bear the cost of a good offer. And so, here we are. Hopefully there are enough desirable housing spots to go around, but there are bound to be bad feelings.
@aquapt I agree with everything you say. My D is not really affected either. She’s going abroad first semester so isn’t a participant in the housing lottery. She’s actually hoping to have her same room. She’s hoping someone going abroad second semester ends up the first semester.
I have a D that is weighing her options right now between schools. She will be going to the admitted students day at Scripps where I’m sure we will get more information, but from somebody who knows…Can you walk me through the housing selection process for incoming freshman? I read the above linked article and it sounds like no freshman will have to live off-campus this year, but are there “freshman-only” dorms?? How do you state your preferences? Do most freshman room “blind” or do most find roommates before they come? Is there a housing preference survey? And how extensive is it? Thanks for any information!
Hi, @wrenwu - yes, first-years normally room “blind” - it may be possible to request a specific roommate (I can’t remember if that was even an option) but it isn’t common. There’s a survey that covers the usual temperament-and-habits territory. When there are actual accommodations that would affect room assignment, that’s a separate process. Rooms are assigned over the summer and students are notified of their assignment and roommates. Triples are most likely arrangement to expect (though some first-years get doubles and a few will now be getting quads in the newly-converted President’s house), and they are dispersed among the various dorms - there are no “freshman-only” dorms. (Of course, there is only so far to disperse - some of my D’s best friends are in the dorm farthest from hers, and it’s really not an issue - the Scripps campus isn’t that big.) Personally, I’m not a huge fan of the self-matching process that goes on at a lot of schools (whether by sticking with the known quantity of high school classmates or by pairing up via social media); the outcomes are as good or better with semi-random matching that’s filtered for some basic measures of compatibility. Having first-years off campus this year was an anomaly that will definitely not be repeated next year, or hopefully ever. Hope that helps!
Thanks so much! Very helpful @aquapt - I think my daughter would prefer to do the self-matching process, so I’m glad that it seems that is common at Scripps. It seems odd that a triple would be the most common outcome? I would think that it would be doubles. Is that because of space issues?
One thing- since we will be visiting and getting to see some of the residential living, do you know if Freshman are able to actually request a dorm? We’re looking forward to our visit!
@wrenwu my D is a sophomore. I don’t believe first years can request a specific dorm. Like @aquapt said, most will be placed in triples. My D was in a very small triple last year. Scripps said it was not a forced triple but I don’t buy that. That said, the three girls made good use of the space, were respectful of one another and made it work. The room size bothered the parents more than the girls.
@wrenwu my daughter was really lucky this year (her freshman year) she signed up for a Living Learning Community (LLC) with the environmental students and she was assigned a single in New Hall which is the newest dorm. This year she signed up for the Environmental LLC and only doubles and triples were available. Maybe the freshman get the singles? I’m not sure. Anyway, the LLCs in various subjects are available to sign up on line and she did so when she did her survey for roommate matching. As a sophomore for next year, she was given a time to sign up for a dorm and she was able to pick her roommate within the environmental LLC. She has a nice double at New Hall again. She is very happy!
Class of 2022 Admission Results for 5C’s
http://tsl.news/news/7540/
Any luck in appealing for merit money from Scripps? I got $0 and honestly I was kind of surprised because it was one of the less competitive schools on my list and I expected to get merit aid.