<p>opinions. help please?</p>
<p>I'm undecided on a major, and feel like I could get completely lost in the UW system. I basically want to go to Scripps, to be honest. But money is an issue and while Scripps lowered the costs to basically the full instate cost of UW, I don't know what is still making me not send in that deposit yet. I didn't get into UW Honors (which was quite surprising to be truthful. Two people from my school I am friends with got in, and my stats/essays should be on par with theirs), so that's not going to help me either in making UW feel like a smaller school. I know there are departmental honors, but I'm undecided. I could major in East Asian studies, I could major in Psychology, Biology, I don't know. I could major in anything.</p>
<p>One of my daughters friends is a freshman at Scripps this year. She loves it! The school is much smaller than UW but because it's a consortium there is a lot of opportunity to meet many people. They have activities planned for freshman at the beginning of the year that just sounded really neat. I don't think a school the size of UW can make someone feel so connected and welcome so quickly. She's being very challenged in her coursework. She is a bright young lady and though she didn't apply to UW she would have surely gotten in and perhaps even honors as well. Her parents are both professors and think she's getting a great education so far at Scripps.</p>
<p>Hope this random tidbit of information is helpful.</p>
<p>No question Scripps is smaller so it'd be the obvious choice if afraid to be lost in a big school is of primary importance.</p>
<p>However, some other factors to consider:
- Scripps is a woman's college
- Scripps being a smaller college has less variety of majors/classes to choose from (even being a part of the Claremont colleges).
- UW will have huge lower division classes
- Scripps is in a suburb of LA with not a lot around it. UW is in town.
- weather
- distance from home</p>