SCRIPPS ADVICE/CHANCE?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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so scripps is literally my ideal college, i am in love with it
small class sizes so teachers actually get to know you, “go women!”, supportive atmosphere, not to mention theres always 5 different food options from the different colleges nearby
I’m applying ED if that helps?

SAT: 2270 (might retake)
GPA UW: 3.6something
idk weighted…
APs so far:
Biology: 3
Statistics (taken out of school): 4
Studio Art: 5
Calc BC: expecting 5 or 4
English Comp.: expecting 5 or 4

Extracurriculars:

  1. Medical Explorers Post 539: (Activities Coordinater, VP next year) monthly speakers and shadowing opportunities for high school and college students
  2. Art/Painting: (Visual Arts Club President), selling greeting cards for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation fundraising, 2013 CSSSA Alum, 2013 California Arts Scholar, compete in various competitions (Reflections, Scholastic Art & Writing Competition, Congressional Art Competition, etc.)
  3. Clarinet: Certificate of Merit Testing (lvl. 8 completed), play for the California Youth Symphony (Wind Ensemble 2)
  4. Volunteering/Fundraising for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: (annual Great Strides Walk- Team Heros4Hope, selling greeting cards with printed artwork, Build A Bot workshop proceeds)
  5. Build A Bot Robotics Workshops: (Co-President and founder) offer sessions for kids at Math Science Nucleus location, teach with Lego NXT EV3 software, (donate all proceeds to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation)
  6. Intern at Tule Ponds: responsible for keeping inventory of seedlings and transplanting
  7. Science Fairs: will be participant in FUSD Science Fair, Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair, Google Science Fair, and Siemens (2nd place Botany ACSEF 2013, 2nd place Mathematics/Computer Science FUSD 2014)
  8. Involved in IHS Clubs: Visual Arts Club (president), Service Learning Club (publicity), Linguistics Club (publicity), CSF, Girls in STEM, VAMS, HOSA( currently publicity, hopefully VP nxt yr)
  9. Internship at CSUEB (state university in CA) with professor who lets me work in the lab..doing dna extraction, sequencing, doing a project about how my brother got Cystic Fibrosis(genetic disorder)

Im expecting ok to good teacher recs
Im a fairly strong writer so good to excellent essays
Im good at interviews too…any tips?

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My daughter is at Scripps and she loves it. Good luck!

I believe it helps to do ED. Here is an interesting article on ED at the 5 C’s.

http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2015/2/21/news/6011-5cs-release-early-decision-results

You sound like a good prospect to me. I would definitely recommend interviewing and if you can do an overnight stay.

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If you don’t mind me asking what was your daughters gpa and sat?