<p>From the college’s newspaper:
"… Past the vine covered trellises and blooming carnations, Scripps College Director of Admissions Laura Stratton said that although the admissions pool for Scripps Early Decision is small, the admissions team at the college is not worried. She sees the Early Decision process at Scripps as being for the students who have come and theyve visited or theyve had a sibling at one of the 5Cs.</p>
<p>This process of admission has gotten very frenzied and its very stressful, Stratton said. [Early Decision] is just a nice way for those students to have the peace of mind of having turned something in early [and] also hearing back earlier. Thats always our hope. The credentials [of the applicants] are really the same.</p>
<p>According to Stratton, for the class of 2015, the Early Decision applicants had largely the same average GPA and SAT scores. The differences, Stratton noted, were more in the qualitative assessments than in the numbers.</p>
<p>In terms of interests, we are just really impressed about how well these students do their research, Stratton said. That was one thing we really noticed this year: that if students were applying to Scripps, they werent applying to be in Claremont; they were applying to be at Scripps. And they talked thoughtfully about the core curriculum, mentioned Challah for Hunger and going to afternoon teathere was really a sense that they were really buying into the Scripps experience, more so than I want to be in Claremont, so Im applying to Scripps.</p>
<p>With so much potential in the applicant pool, Stratton and the Scripps admissions team break the profiles down and ask the same questions of each prospective student.</p>
<p>We think, will this student be successful at Scripps? Not just survive, but really succeed, Stratton said. And also, will she be happy here? And those questions cut across all different types of application options.
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