Scripps Community/all women

Eternal_Icicle
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:58:49 +0000

Having looked at multiple women’s colleges during my college app process, I think Scripps very uniquely maintains a women’s college feel while simultaneously being an engaged member of the very tightly knit Claremont consortium. I was once asked if I thought Scripps would ever “modernize” and become co-ed (the way Pitzer became co-ed from it’s women’s college beginnings), but the question is ridiculous because Scripps is a thoroughly modern institution, and being a women’s college is so much part of the college’s ethos. I have never learned so much about feminism as I have at Scripps in the last three years… even having never taken a class specifically on feminism! It just becomes something that is discussed (without the feminism-is-a-dirty-word vibe I got in high school). However, very few of the school’s policies recall the women’s colleges of the past; there are no curfews, boys are allowed in the dorms, etc. Scripps students are adults and are treated as such.

As for community… Some days I feel like Scripps fosters a really strong sisterhood. Though far from a social butterfly, I’ve somehow wound up with an enormous network of friends (with a smaller group of friends within that, for my introverted-self). At the same time, Scripps doesn’t build the same kind of dorm-based ties that are really characteristic of Harvey Mudd (or fraternities, I suppose), and some people feel that aspect of the Scripps community could be changed.