Chance me please! (Reed)

I’m a Minnesota student applying to Reed from an alternative (but public) high school with similar values and grading to Reed, I’m also queer and am doing a full year of college courses for my senior year, focusing on the humanities.

GPA: 3.98 W, 3.69 U/W

ACT: 32 composite, 36 in reading and writing, 29 in STEM, 11 on the essay (which is out of 12)

I’ve done 2 years of a city run commission that distributes grants for youth groups around the city and acts as a youth voice to the city council, I set rubrics, ran interviews, etc. Senior year I’m working on the board for a youth performance company, and I’ve been doing art and writing related stuff through most of high school along with part time/summer paid work sophomore - senior year.

Let me know what you think my chances are!

Good chances, but think about applying ED.

I’m in a very similar position: I have a lower GPA but I go to a rigorous private school which counteracts that, however I’m just nervous the workload at read will crush me.

Reed won’t admit you unless you have already shown (by your academic statistics) that you can handle the workload.

The workload may demand that you have a good answer to this question: “How many hours are there in a work-week?” If you think 40 is a good number (typical number for typical job), then you need to adjust your number upwards for Reed. By 50% or more, i.e., 60+ hours.

Never fear, there are actually 24x7 (168) hours in a week. But at Reed you need to think about academics, or do academics for about half of that time. You will be rewarded – as I have been – if you can focus that much and engage the curricular and other opportunities at Reed.