After three years experience at Scripps...

Ladyengineer2012
Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:45:52 +0000

I feel I need to discuss my daughter’s experience at Scripps. She is a freshman at Scripps. She is loving it.

My daughter does not get financial aid and she has a merit scholarship. She worked last semester as a note taker but those jobs are rare. She was taking the right class at the right time. She is working as a volunteer on a research project at Keck. She was informed today that she has been granted a summer research fellowship ($$) by the Keck faculty to continue working on that research project.

It is possible for a student receiving no financial aid to be awarded a summer fellowship. Her merit scholarship precluded her from applying for a Scripps College Internship Grant but she did her homework and found a program that would fund her for the summer.

She is one data point but she shows that it is possible for a student with no financial aid to get summer funding at Scripps.

As far as classes, she is taking 1 class at Scripps, 2 at Keck, and 1.75 at Pomona (1 full credit class, 1 half credit class and the 0.25 credit class is a PE class). She did have to ask for permission to take the full credit Pomona class but she did get in.