**** SCRIPPS COLLEGE 2019 RD Applicants ****

Colleges and Universities A-Z Scripps College
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Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2150 M 750 CR 630 W 770 ( I can’t critically read…)
ACT: 33 (36 M, 31 W, 28 CR, 32 S, 8 Essay)
SAT II: 750 Math Level 2, 570 Lit, 650 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.9
UC GPA: 4.07
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 4%
ELC: I don’t know what this is
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB(4); Chem(3); Chinese(5); Lit(2); Psych(3); US History(3); World History(4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): School doesn’t have IB
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Gov, AP Physicsi, AP Lang, Advanced Orchestra, AP Calc BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, Presidential Volunteer Award, Hugh O Brian 2013 Seminar Ambassador

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Piano
Varsity tennis (Singles/doubles; co-captain)
District symphonic orchestra (Concertmistress)
District summer musical pit orchestra
American Red Cross Club (Co-president)
Project Outreach (Co-founder/Co-president)
Hospital volunteer
Animal rescue foster parent

Job/Work Experience: Privately tutored individuals in my community for math and piano
Volunteer/Community service: ~1,100 hours
Personal Statement: The idea sounded better in my head haha but I wrote about biking

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major : Neuroscience
State (if domestic applicant): So-Cal REPRESENT
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <20k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): First-generation college student

Reflection
Strengths: I have no idea honestly.
Weaknesses: I still have no idea.

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ACCEPTED!!! didn’t expect this!

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 Objective:

[ *] SAT I: 2170 (698 M 800 CR 690 W)
[ *] ACT: Didn’t take
[ *] SAT II: 800 World History, 720 Literature
[ *] Unweighted GPA: 3.93
[ *] Rank: 1/1
[ *] AP: none
[ *] IB: none
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Trigonometry & pre calculus, English, Chemistry with labs, Economics, Korean, China unit study, studio art, and PE.
[ *] Major Awards: Citizen service award from the mayor

  Subjective:

[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): River cleanup (founded), ran an private animal rescue until 10th grade (co-founder), volunteer at library, volunteer at clothing closet, volunteer at chamber of commerce (junior ambassador), volunteer at art gallery.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: none
[ *] Essays: I thought they were okay. I wrote about overcoming illness on the common app essay, and did the if you could do anything without the risk of failure prompt.
[ *] Recommendations: Glowing
[ *] Interview: Didn’t interview

 Other

[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] Intended Major: Asian studies
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): No Cal
[ *] School Type: Homeschool
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Income Bracket: <20k
[ *] Hooks: Overcoming adversity? Not sure if that’s a hook or not.

 Reflection

[ *] Strengths: humanities subjects
[ *] Weaknesses: math
[ *] Why you think you were waitlisted: Possibly because of being homeschooled/ illness. They might wonder if I could handle the environment perhaps.

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waitlisted, and im actually really happy because i thought i was gonna get flat out denied. what are my chances of getting in at this point, does anybody know?

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@rllyrlyodd‌ :’( it’s not very likely to get off the waitlist at Scripps; I’m sorry to tell you…

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@TheOtterOne yeah i noticed now…im just gonna assume it’s for the better

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@rllyrlyodd‌ I’m on the waitlist too, so I feel ya… But I like your thinking!! You’ll do great wherever you end up! Best of luck for all of your future endeavors <3

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Decision: Accepted w/ presidential scholarship (renewable each year)

Objective:
SAT I: 2240-superscored/2090-single sitting (M 750 CR 690 W 800)
ACT: 32 (30 E, 31 M, 35 R, 32 S, 10 Essay)
SAT II: Math 2 610, Chem 720, US History 680, Spanish Lang 640
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.00
UC GPA: 4.24
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
ELC: uh, no?
APs: Chem 3, APUSH 4, Spanish Lang 4, English Lang 4
IBs: N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov/Econ, AP Bio, Astro100 (community college, one semester), Advanced Band (also cc credit), AP Lit, chemistry internship, AP Calc AB
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, AP Scholar w/ Honors (+ other local academic awards)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV Volleyball (2 years), Concert Band (2yrs), Wind Ensemble (2yrs), Pep Band (4yrs), Band Council (3yrs, Historian), flying/flight training, school activities

Job/Work Experience: Tutor in math/chem/bio at all levels, Dog walking, House sitting, Babysitting, Front Desk at a flying club (12hrs/week)
Volunteer/Community service: science festivals, science outreach, educator giveaways, church outreach (I don’t even know how many hours, my mom works with non-profits so I’ve been doing this for ages)
Personal Statement: CommonApp ones were about a scary experience during flight training (failure prompt), and reading (world you come from prompt), Scripps specific one was about the overall LA college experience I think

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major : Chemistry
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Mixed
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Private Pilot, lots of demonstrated interest in science/major

Reflection
Strengths: Unique hobby I guess, good grades, ok test scores, lots of effort put into the essays, strong recommendations (3 teacher recs)
Weaknesses: test scores, interview went okay but could’ve been better, haven’t toured yet so couldn’t talk about that

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btw I was denied at Pomona and waitlisted at Kenyon

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@hellosweetie‌ Congratulations on the acceptance and the scholarship!! Those are very impressive stats and you are definitely going places(if not, flying there wink wink)!

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@TheOtterOne Thanks! Keep hoping for that waitlist, and best of luck wherever you decide to go!

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How were you notified of the Scripps trustee scholarship – online or in the mailed packet? My D got accepted but no merit money and I don’t know if I want to pay full fare when she got such good merit money at other great schools.

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If you want to see how many people get accepted off the waitlist go to College Board and type in the college in the search box. Then go to the “Applying” tab on the left side of the screen and it will tell you how many got offers last year. For Scripps, last year they offered 683 people waitlists, 277 said yes to the waitlist, and 0 were actually given offers. Some schools don’t tell you their waitlist statistics - Pitzer does not tell you. CMC offered 614 ppl a place on the list; 349 said yes, and 38 were given offers. Pomona didn’t take anyone from the waitlist. Best advice - don’t wait around, say yes to someone who accepted you!

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Accepted with President’s Scholarship!! I legit am so ecstatic, Scripps is one of my top choices, just waiting on two more schools to decide :slight_smile: I’m also shocked they wrote directly on my admission letter and my stats for merit weren’t substantially high - 31 ACT 4.2 GPA

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Yes them writing directly on the admission letter is such a wonderful thing. Congrats, @marianna221b and I hope to see you next year :slight_smile: