admission chances, etc

Colleges and Universities A-Z Reed College
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<p>so i've mostly been feeling pretty confident, but lately I don't know...
I come from a prestigious public high school in a big state
four years of basically every subject
plus, 3 years high school spanish, 3 years high school german, working on second year of arabic at a local college
good grades, we don't have the whole 4.0 system, but I have around 96/100 unweighted average
SAT:
800 reading
780 writing
680 math
SAT II:
800 U.S. History
800 World History
730 Math II
AP:
5 US History
5 World History
5 AB Computer Science
Have had pretty rigorous class schedules all four years of high school, am now taking AP US Government, AP AB Calculus, AP English plus the other classes which are no joke either at my school
My extracurriculars are probably the main problem. It's not that I don't have extracurricular interests, but my main passion is for academics! I love school, and I love learning. Thus, I've taken a philosophy course one summer, a psychology course another, and have done a college term's worth of arabic this summer. I have done a lot of travelling with parents, as well as a lot of outdoorsy kinds of things, camping, hiking and the like, which i'm fairly serious about. Also, volunteered at the botanic gardens over the summer as a sort of apprentice gardener. </p>

<p>How do my chances sound? Also, should I try and stress non-academic things i've done, or just go ahead and be completely honest, that academics are my real passion, and that I see in Reed somewhat likeminded people? I should add that I was thinking of linking my love for languages with the traveling I've done or something, since they both have a lot to do with what I see as my curiosity about the world.</p>

<p>Sorry for the looong post. Hey! This apology added another line!</p>

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<p>Reed's big on people who love to learn. The classes are rigorous and I would say you are academically well-prepared for Reed. Travel and outdoor activities are also big there. </p>

<p>Reed's also big on honesty--just write your "Why Reed" essay from the heart and I don't think you'll have any problem. </p>

<p>Check out their website--look at C7 on this link to Reed's Common Data Set to see the relative importance of different factors in their admission process. You can see there are more important factors than your EC's:
<a href="http://web.reed.edu/ir/ReedCDS200405.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.reed.edu/ir/ReedCDS200405.html&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>