<p>sorry for accusing you meganlauren.Congrats to you!!!</p>
<p>Yup, as the rest of you announce your emails i become more and more sure that I will not be receiving one</p>
<p>Oh well, I can still hope for smith money</p>
<p>Yeah! Accepted to Scripps Scholars program! Very excited to take a break from this freeezing weather and finally see Scripps!</p>
<p>Hope to see some of you in a month!</p>
<p>Congatulations to all invited for the scholars weekend. My daughter is a freshman this year at Scripps and loves it. Keep in mind that even if you don’t end up getting the JESS award, Scripps has a generous financial aid program. Our family was quite pleasantly surprised by the amount of financial aid that my daughter received.</p>
<p>Cheese and rice, I don’t think I’ll be getting one…</p>
<p>nope…no email…well it is only 230 on the west coast…</p>
<p>goodbye scripps…i guess you go off my list now</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t receive an email either so I called the school a little while ago. I found out that there were over 700 applicants and I’m not one of the lucky ones either. Now I’m dying to know if I will get in RD.</p>
<p>Yeah, when I emailed them a couple days ago they said they’d notify everyone this week, but you’d think they would’ve told me then if I had gotten it. Ah well.</p>
<p>I don’t want to have to wait until April!</p>
<p>^^I think if we had gotten it, we would have been emailed. I mean, all they have to do is send a mass email right?</p>
<p>it’s gonna suck if i get in. I love scripps…but there’s no way for me to go now…i’d rather just get rejected</p>
<p>to those of you awaiting a response about the JESS scholarship:
i emailed Scripps and here is the response i got.</p>
<p>Thanks very much for getting in touch with Scripps College. The
academic scholarship finalist notifications will be sent out this week.
If you havent received anything from us by the end of next week,
please call our main office line at (800) 770-1333.</p>
<p>good luck and congratulations to everyone out there!</p>
<p>^^oh god…I don’t think I can handle waiting</p>
<p>
Ah well, we can’t really gain anything being negative, I suppose. I have heard that sometimes they’re generous with finaid, moreso than other similar LACs. Here’s hoping, after all.</p>
<p>My parents aren’t contributing for college. Even with generous finaid, I need merit…bummer</p>
<p>i agree with snoopyiscool. if scripps is where you really want to go, then make it work. </p>
<p>and you are not the only one that needs merit aid and the scholarship.</p>
<p>sorry…i guess I shouldn’t whine…
I just haven’t had any good college news, and I was hoping this would turn the tide
oh well…good luck to everyone who got good news!!!</p>
<p>rocket6louise- where else are you applying? I’m not sure if you’d be at all interested but 2 of the schools on my daughter’s list also give fairly good merit aid, in some cases automatic if you meet certain criteria. The two schools that come to mind are New College of Florida and Earlham. New College in particular is interesting because it about 35K Total (including room and board) and depending on GPA and SAT/ACT scores there are automatic scholarships of up to $12k/year. I think Earlham has something simiilar. I know neither are Scripps but those are just the ones I know that have decent merit. I think New College’s deadline if Feb 1st.</p>
<p>Just a note about Scripps financial aid - they cover the discrepancy. If your family is calculated that they can pay, say, $10,000 a year, you can do a work-study program, take out $11,000 in loans (that’s all that Scripps will allow you to take out) and then Scripps covers the rest (as I understand it from attending Preview Day there). Cool, huh? 
The only snafu is that your family HAS to pay what they are calculated to pay. But other than that, Scripps covers the rest once you do all you can. :)</p>
<p>By the way, does anyone know what additional material should involve?
Scripps asked me to do so…</p>
<p>Daughter received letter today (dated 1/5/10) informing her that she would not be offered an academic scholarship. Muy triste. For calibration purposes, she had:</p>
<p>ACT 33 (Sept, 2009)
SAT 2060 (March, 2009)
Unweighted GPA 3.98
Weighted GPA 4.27
Rank (competitive public school): top 3%
APs: US History 5, World History 5, Calculus A/B 5, Macroeconomics 4
SAT IIs: US History 800; Math II 660</p>
<p>We were hopeful that she would be at least be invited to the weekend to compete for the scholarship. But it was not to be. Congratulations to those who were successful.</p>
<p>Hi everyone, I too received a very heartfelt letter from Scripps today informing me that I was not a JES Finalist. While I am sad because this is the end of the road for Scripps and I, I am also hopeful that good things will come from this. I am a complete fatalist and I believe that everything happens for a reason, so I fully trust there is more a head!</p>
<p>For future reference my statistics are:</p>
<p>ACT: 32
GPA: UW-- 3.7 W-- 3.9 at a Top Ranked Very Large Public HS in California
SAT II’s: US History 650, Literature 680
AP: AP Euro- 4 AP Lang- 5 (AP Stat/AP Lit this year… and several Honors classes)
Extra: Editor-in-Chief of School Newspaper, Varsity Volleyball, Chambers Singers, After school job of 2 years (15 hrs a week), Volunteer as a Camp for the past 3 summers, Safe School Ambassador, and participated in many clubs.
Essays/Recs: Because writing is my specialty, they were the strongest aspect of my application. On that note, I had extremely close teachers write my recommendations!</p>
<p>Hope that helps any prospective applicants next year! Like they told us, it was extremely competitive what with the recession, so congratulations to all the lovely ladies who were invited and good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>and I STILL haven’t heard</p>