Chance me porfavor

Colleges and Universities A-Z Reed College
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<p>Reed is a dream school for me: very leftw ing, in Portland, lax on drug use and still academically challenging. Outside of the large expenses (do any current students have any advice on how to mitigate this?), it's perfect for me. </p>

<p>Here are my stats:
State: Idaho
Race: Latino
GPA: 3.4 weighted, 3.9 weighted without freshman year. My class rank is in the top 25%, would be in the top 5% without my freshman year.
APs: US History (4), LangComp (4), and Gov (5). I self-studied World (5) and APES (5).
SATs: R - 740, M - 630, W - 680. 2060 overall. (new scores won't be sent in for a while)
SAT IIs: US History 800, World History 800, Literature unkown (I actually haven't taken any yet but my history scores are guranteed because with no studying I got 800s on each practice test)</p>

<p>My class load:</p>

<p>Freshman Year (at a difficult charter school)
-Honors Ancient History
-Physical Science
-Honors Ancient Literature
-Algebra
-Speech and Debate
-Spanish 2</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
-Advanced Biology
-Honors English
-AP US History
-Geometry
-Health/PE (required)
-Web Design/Money Management (required)</p>

<p>Junior Year
-AP Lang Comp
-Macroeconomics/Microeconomics (dual enrolled)
-Philosophy/Ethics (dual enrolled)
-AP Government
-Algebra 2
-Environmental Science</p>

<p>Senior Year- I could easily add more classes here.
-International Politics (dual enrolled)
-Honors Pre-Calculus
-AP Literature
-Physical Geography/some social science class (dual enrolled)
-AP Psychology</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
-volunteer at Food Bank starting this summer
-did Speech/Debate freshman year
-did Cross Country and Track freshman year
-I'm very politically active, I volunteered for the Idaho Democratic Party in the 2010 midterms, interning with the Idaho Democrats, chair of the Idaho Young Democrats High School caucus and am active in the Occupy Wall Street protests. </p>

<p>I want to major in Economics or possibly Public Policy.</p>

<p>I'm really frustrated because on paper I look fairly average but that's only because I knew nothing about the college process until my Junior year and wasn't prepared at all. I didn't prepare for the SAT and still got the highest score in my class. Yeah, a 2060 at my high school is amazing (lol Idaho). </p>

<p>I hear that Reed admissions is great for kids like me who do great on standardized tests yet get mediocre GPAs.</p>

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<p>you do not sound average…</p>

<p>i wouldn’t be worried. send in an awesome essay and i think you probably have a really good shot.</p>

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<p>Just so you know, Reed doesn’t have a Public Policy major.</p>

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<p>@hoopser</p>

<p>Yeah, I know. I copied over my stats from another post and forgot to edit that out.</p>

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<p>@ laurenberg</p>

<p>Thanks! At least I hope I have a good shot…</p>

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<p>They put a lot of emphasis on the Why Reed essay. I would spend a lot of time on that if I were you.</p>

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<p>And make sure to mention Reed’s lax drug policy in it, the adcom loves reading stuff like that.</p>

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<p>I mentioned that here because it shows off aspects of the non-conformist philosophy of Reed that I really like, not because I’m a dope fiend or a meth peddler. Yes, I think the drug war is stupid and counterproductive. Any university that is willing to buck idiotic governmental laws gets props from me. The same goes for Reed’s stand against McCarthyism. </p>

<p>Anyways no I wouldn’t include that in my essay because I’m not an idiot. Funny joke though!</p>

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<p>Well, a tenured (communist) philosophy professor was fired; two (communist) professors were let go after their contracts ended; and the dean of students at the time (indifferent about Communism) “voluntarily” resigned. The board of trustees overwhelmingly opposed any affiliation with the Communist party. Most of the faculty opposed the anti-Communist tactics of the board of trustees, but that didn’t mean much in the end. That’s also the stand against anti-Communism, not McCarthyism; but this “stand against [anti-Communism]” is not exactly what was happening at Reed.</p>

<p>Anyways, your stats seem fine except for your GPA. Take your subject tests and see what you get (don’t assume you’ll get 800s). Write a strong essay. You know, what we tell everyone who posts a thread like this.</p>

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<p>It really is the same thing over and over.</p>

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<p>^Yup… that’s cuz there’s really absolutely no way for us current or prospective students, parents, or alumni to have any kind of an idea about whether or not someone will get in. I’m not quite sure why people keep asking or why they think we’ll have some kind of magic answer…</p>

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<p>I would also like to know in what ways you participate in the Occupy protests. :)</p>

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<p>Did you apply to ROME, by any chance?</p>

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<p>“Any university that is willing to buck idiotic governmental laws …”</p>

<p>Which laws do you think Reed is bucking?</p>

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<p>Anything involving drug use of course. ;)</p>