Dude, Scripps, What the hell!?
We got final enrollment stats in the Scripps community meeting today:
235 new first years
19 transfers
Fortunately, 11 students decided to defer until next year. (considering that we're in a MAJOR housing crunch)
As happens *every* year, the SAT scores & GPAs are the highest they've ever been. The
medians are something like 1350 & 4.1 respectively. And in a special scholarship group (probably JES Scholars, of which I am one), median SAT was 1500!
While I do congratulate us on getting ever more selective, I think we need to be *differently* selective. Clearly upping the scores and grades required is not bringing down the number of people admitted and matriculating as necessary. Like every year for the past I dunno...5...maybe 10 years, who knows, but atleast 5...the entering class has been larger than any class in the history of Scripps. The school's population is growing exponentially dude! The problem is, housing is not. We're on a fairly closed campus when it comes to construction and they're using the only remaining piece of arable land to construct a new *fitness center*. When I entered it was into a double that had been tripled, I knew people in singles that had been doubled. Now I think every room techinically cleared to house another person is, plus they've converted two houses close to campus for students, and they're housing people in an apartment complex across Mudd and Foothill (Rte 66) from the campuses. Fucking lovely, eh? You see they say they're making admissions more selective, but they're only doing so in regards to academics as far as i can tell. They talk about "community building" but they aren't giving aid to real members of the community who need it and will be sorely missed and they are packing in the freshmen as much as they can while upping the annual cost. Seems to me they've lost sight of building our community in favor of building they're bottom line. I understand that this is a business, to them especially, but it is also an institute of higher learning, and it's home, to some of us. The administration frequently over looks the needs and concerns of their students in favor of keeping the board happy and padding their pocket books. I know that, according to some, that's what they're *supposed* to do, but I just can't agree. But them, I'm not much of a business woman. I love Scripps, I just hate what I see the administration doing to it. I want to have enough money someday that i can make them listen. I don't think I ever will, but it's a nice dream, and hey, stranger things have happened, right? My first order of business would be to set up a scholarship for like 5 queer activists in every year. That would be hott. It would allow Scripps to continue it's tradition of queer college council presidents, which this year is sadly in violation of, and for which I will run if there is no other queer running my year, if only on principle.
235 new first years
19 transfers
Fortunately, 11 students decided to defer until next year. (considering that we're in a MAJOR housing crunch)
As happens *every* year, the SAT scores & GPAs are the highest they've ever been. The
medians are something like 1350 & 4.1 respectively. And in a special scholarship group (probably JES Scholars, of which I am one), median SAT was 1500!
While I do congratulate us on getting ever more selective, I think we need to be *differently* selective. Clearly upping the scores and grades required is not bringing down the number of people admitted and matriculating as necessary. Like every year for the past I dunno...5...maybe 10 years, who knows, but atleast 5...the entering class has been larger than any class in the history of Scripps. The school's population is growing exponentially dude! The problem is, housing is not. We're on a fairly closed campus when it comes to construction and they're using the only remaining piece of arable land to construct a new *fitness center*. When I entered it was into a double that had been tripled, I knew people in singles that had been doubled. Now I think every room techinically cleared to house another person is, plus they've converted two houses close to campus for students, and they're housing people in an apartment complex across Mudd and Foothill (Rte 66) from the campuses. Fucking lovely, eh? You see they say they're making admissions more selective, but they're only doing so in regards to academics as far as i can tell. They talk about "community building" but they aren't giving aid to real members of the community who need it and will be sorely missed and they are packing in the freshmen as much as they can while upping the annual cost. Seems to me they've lost sight of building our community in favor of building they're bottom line. I understand that this is a business, to them especially, but it is also an institute of higher learning, and it's home, to some of us. The administration frequently over looks the needs and concerns of their students in favor of keeping the board happy and padding their pocket books. I know that, according to some, that's what they're *supposed* to do, but I just can't agree. But them, I'm not much of a business woman. I love Scripps, I just hate what I see the administration doing to it. I want to have enough money someday that i can make them listen. I don't think I ever will, but it's a nice dream, and hey, stranger things have happened, right? My first order of business would be to set up a scholarship for like 5 queer activists in every year. That would be hott. It would allow Scripps to continue it's tradition of queer college council presidents, which this year is sadly in violation of, and for which I will run if there is no other queer running my year, if only on principle.