In recent years, existing housing at Scripps has grown increasingly cramped. Other students lamented the constant housing squeeze. Where can the new students go? Where else can they build?” Norcini said. The opening of Revelle house was in response to last year. “I don’t know where else the extra students can go. Some Scripps students, like Norcini, are worried that 2017’s housing shortage will repeat next year. Scripps spokesperson Rachael Warecki could not provide that information either. Romero did not respond to several of TSL’s other queries, including when such renovations occurred, how many beds were added to the residence halls, how many students are currently in each class and how many beds are on campus. The Revelle House added 12 beds, according to the Scripps 2019-2020 Housing Plan. “We have enough beds on campus due to the conversion of Revelle House,” Romero said, adding that Toll, Browning and Dorsey Halls have recently been renovated. Scripps also will not be expanding housing options for next year, she said. Regardless, enrolling 304 students would increase the total number of students on Scripps’ campus.ĭespite this, Romero said via email that Scripps does not expect a housing shortage next year. Romero didn’t respond to TSL’s inquiry about how many students from that class are still enrolled at Scripps. If the enrolled class of 2023 yields around 304 students, it will likely be significantly larger than Scripps’ exiting class, the class of 2019, which enrolled 277 students in 2015, according to the Common Data Set. However, Scripps’ average yield rate over the last four years - 33.75% - suggests that approximately 304 students will accept Scripps’ offer of admissions, which is 24 more than expected.
Scripps’ target class size for 2023 is 280 students, according to Victoria Romero, vice president for enrollment. However, after a year spent trying to accommodate the large class of 2021 on campus, Scripps has admitted another large class of 902 students - nearly 150 more than were admitted last year. Last year, Scripps accepted fewer students and utilized its waitlist more to avoid over-enrollment and prevent having to house first-year students off-campus again. “What we didn’t anticipate was that more students would accept our offer of admission than we expected.” “We know that our applicants often have many great offers to consider, so we aim to admit enough students to meet the enrollment target,” Laura Stratton, Scripps’ director of admission, explained in an email to TSL at the time. That year, Scripps admitted 949 students, yielding the largest class in Scripps’ history - 329. Norcini, like 37 other Scripps first-years, was placed in the CGU apartments in 2017 due to a housing shortage caused by over-enrollment. Standing in the August heat waiting for the inconsistent shuttle to take her to campus, fighting with administrators over unfulfilled promises, receiving little assistance from Campus Safety when lost on the way to CGU after late-night orientation programming - all these experiences characterized Norcini’s first year at Scripps. They had missed a half-hour the class waiting for the shuttle. This proved to be a lucky move - 30 minutes into her class, seven fellow CGU residents burst in. Helen Norcini SC ’21 wanted to catch breakfast before her morning class, so she took the early shuttle from her housing at the Claremont Graduate University apartments to Scripps College’s campus.
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