Vibrant Community
Student Experience
Student Life
Scripps Communities of Resources and Empowerment (SCORE)
SCORE is a hub for equity, identity, and belonging on campus, offering student-centered programs that uplift first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. Through mentorship, community-building, and dynamic student-led initiatives and affinity clubs and organizations, SCORE cultivates spaces where students thrive, connect, and lead with authenticity and purpose.
Snapshot of year-round community events, workshops, and programming initiatives.
Our students enjoy an immersive, holistic, residential experience with access to career preparation resources that begin their first year, immersive leadership treks, and guidance from supportive, experienced staff.
Student Clubs and Organizations
Students find community through involvement in 30+ clubs and organizations at Scripps and more through The Claremont Colleges. Students, on average, are also involved in two or more co-curricular activities.
5C Dance Company
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clubs and organizations
2+
co-curricular activities per student
Creating Community
Scripps Votes interns conducting campus outreach during the 2024 US election
Scripps named 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge.
Learn MoreSTUDENT GOVERNMENT
Scripps provides many opportunities for students to gain leadership experience through clubs and organizations, involvement on the Board of Trustees, student government, and on-campus work.
Scripps Associated Students (SAS) president Melina Durre ’25 wants people to know that SAS is a place of support for the student body.
CAREER PLANNING AND RESOURCES
Signature programming for students begins during their first week on campus. Students also participate in the Emerging Professionals program, a week-long intensive of programming, Career Exploration Treks, on-site employer visits in major metropolitan areas, and benefit from internship grants which support unpaid summer internships.
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career treks
21
organizations
107
paid internships totaling $342K
80%
first-year students engaged
EMERGING PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM
Attendees at the 2025 Emerging Professionals Program mixer.
Diversity & Inclusion
Scripps College honors diversity as a key component of the academic, co-curricular, and residential life of the College.
SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: SYDNEY NEMETS ’25
Exploring cultural heritage and home-finding as a Racial Justice and Equity Fellow
Scripps College senior Sydney Nemetz ’25 (photo credit: Corina Silverstein)
Scripps Community Diversity
IDEA provides a public dashboard that serves as an important tool for community education and accountability to cultivate a more diverse community and achieve inclusive student success. The demographic breakdown of the Scripps community is available from academic years 2017-18 through 2024-25.
83%
6-year graduation rate
94%
retention rate
IDEA
The College established the IDEA Initiative in 2014, a comprehensive plan to align resources, programs, and events to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and access throughout the Scripps community.
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faculty fellows
4
student fellows
6
community building projects
The Equity and Justice leadership team fostered community building through partnerships with Scripps Associated Students (SAS) and the Laspa Center’s Student Leadership Institute, the development of community gatherings, listening sessions, and a voting converaction, and its monthly newsletters.
Alums And Families
Alums and families strengthen the Scripps community through their active participation as College ambassadors, giving back generously of their time and resources as volunteers, mentors, event-goers, donors, and more.
Regardless of the year they graduated, our alums comment on how their Scripps education not only prepared them for careers, graduate school, and post-graduate fellowships, but also prepared them for life.
Alums in the News
Emily Alvarado ’03 joined constituents to participate in the Children’s Alliance annual Have a Heart for Kids Day in Washington.
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Dwandalyn Reece ’85, curator of music and performing arts at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, was a guest on the museum’s podcast, Sidedoor, which explores art, history, science, nature, and more
Listen to Podcast
Gabby Giffords ’93, gun violence survivor, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August 2024.
Watch VideoScripps in Bloom Presidential Tour
Scripps community members gather for the presidential tour events held in Austin, Washington, DC, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
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cities
12
events
445
alum and family members
Alums and Families Engagement and Giving
28%
alums engaged
13%
alums donated
63%
families engaged
26%
families donated
