| My daughter has a close friend at Scripps now. Her experience there has been everything one could hope for -- friends, close faculty relationships, research and internships, a great deal of personal growth, academic success -- . . . except, she has sometimes not felt challenged by her classes. This is the "laid back" second daughter of very high-strung, high-achievement academic parents, with a world-conquering older sibling to boot. Because she got more Bs than As in a very tough high school, her family convinced her that perhaps she should avoid an academic pressure cooker. Hence Scripps. She has loved it overall, but occasionally wishes for the challenge of a place like Wellesley. |