<p>4.0 uw / 4.2ish w
5.0 jr and sr years gpa
most rigourous course load availabel to me, only a few aps tho cuz my school sucks.
i will get/have gotten 4/5 on all ap tests.
multiple cc classes over summer and during school yr
1950 sat / 30 act
straight a's in hs
LOR will be awesome
essays will be even awesomer.
will need FA.
a few ecs w/ some leadership but nothin huge. no job.
basketball + student gov frosh/soph yrs.
will do interview. </p>
<p>what do u guys think? do i have a chance? im also appplying ed2.</p>
<p>Reed people on here don’t often reply to these threads because it’s really hard for any of us to say whether you have a chance or not. The most we can do is say how your scores compare to the averages (which you can figure out for yourself) and tell you to write good essays.</p>
<p>okay, but i’m just worried about my sat scores. if everything else is good, but my sat are below average, does it ruin my chances? i really really really wanna go to reed.</p>
<p>It doesn’t ruin your chances, no, but why don’t you retake? You are, after all, only a sophomore…I didn’t even think about taking the SAT till my junior year, and even then I did it in March.</p>
<p>i just took it to see where i’m at. but my family doens’t have alot of money so i need to work alot to raise the money for the sat fee again. i just didn’t want to have to work for the oney if the score was fine.</p>
<p>it’s not THAT low. i hate SATs. what an arbitrary measure of intelligence…and to have that much of finances/acceptance riding on it and to have to pay an obscene amount of money just to take and send scores. i could go on and on. but yeah, if you’re that concerned about the score, retake it at the end of junior year. your score will probably go up by that time just through experience (more reading, more math classes, etc). if you have less money, do you qualify for a fee waiver?</p>
<p>No, don’t retake the SAT, especially if you can’t easily pay the fee. My SAT score was lower than yours is and I got in just fine. Maybe if you were applying to a different school of Reed’s caliber that put more emphasis on arbitrary measures of intelligence, you should retake it. But a 1950 is a perfectly acceptable SAT score and they will pretty much only glance at it anyway.</p>
<p>SAT scores don’t matter as much here. Seriously.</p>
<p>Also, how do you know that you’ll get all 4/5’s on your AP tests?</p>
<p>Wait, you’re only a Sophomore? So how do you know your Junior and Senior year GPA’s? Or that you will have straight A’s through High School? You’re only half done…</p>
<p>^SATs aren’t supposed to measure intelligence. It’s the Scholastic <em>Achievement</em> Test, which tests what a student’s learned, not their capability to learn (a nice working, albeit vague, definition of intelligence, I think). That said, I agree completely. It works against the poor and isn’t culture-fair (which obviously relates back to the first).</p>
<p>A 1950 would place you squarely at the 25th percentile for the current freshman class (if we assume that the cumulative of the 25th-percentile section scores = the actual 25th-percentile score, which we shouldn’t, but since the 25th-percentile scores for admitted students were probably higher than those for matriculated students, I’d say these two cancel each other out), so yeah, it will hurt you in admissions. A higher SAT score (and better spelling) would improve your chances a lot.</p>
<p>Wakeboarder, have you tried to get a fee waiver for the SATs? If you qualify for free lunch at school, you are probably eligible. I strongly advise you to retake the SATs at the end of your junior year, as you will have improved considerably. Most people I know improved at least 200 points following their sophomore year, so it’s definitely worth it. It’s true that Reed is more holistic than most in admissions, but they still do consider SATs and your current scores <em>will</em> decrease your chances since they’re at the lower 25%. Don’t forget about subject tests!</p>
<p>okay thanks guys for all the info! i feel (mostly) comforted. and yeah sorry about all the spelling mistakes but its hard because i get excited and well it’s the internet so i dont really care about perfect grammar anyway haha.</p>
<p>and reedie- these are just predictions. ive gotten straight a’s so far so im assuming im gonna keep them. i work really hard. and i know reed doesnt accept 3’s on aps, so im hoping not to get any of those. if i get a B i will die!!</p>
<p>i thought subject tests weren’t required for reed?? oh well ill probably take them anyways. :(</p>
<p>and theres a fee waiver? i didnt know! how do i get it?</p>
<p>subject tests aren’t required. they’re nice to have and i wish someone would have told me that schools looked at them or what they they were before i reached senior year…</p>
<p>you will not die if you get a B or a 3 on an AP test. starting junior year, i know many extremely intelligent people who ended up getting B’s or even C’s in certain classes. my brother is taking AP calc and has gotten straight A’s through all of high school. he has a high C in the class, despite his intended major in physics and his probable acceptance into carnegie mellon and just general greatness at math (which i am lacking!). my attraction to reed was the lesser emphasis on grades and greater focus on knowledge for knowledge’s sake. i am so tired of worrying about all of my stats in whatever class or test or application. i can’t wait to just get accepted somewhere and spend time actually learning without a numerical goal. learning is fun. high school sucks that feeling right out of you.</p>
<p>that, and where you want to go will probably end up changing over the next year or two. i am also one of those neurotic planners who has been looking at colleges since middle school, but in retrospect, i would not have focused on that until maybe the end of junior year. just focus on high school right now and don’t worry about what stats you need to get into a specific school. i thought i wanted to go to an ivy up until last month. now i am looking at a bunch of open curriculum schools that better suit my personality/needs/goals/finances.</p>
<p>i guess, just be aware of general goals but don’t focus on specific schools right now…it’s kinda pointless if you’re only a sophomore.</p>
and yeah sorry about all the spelling mistakes but its hard because i get excited and well it’s the internet so i dont really care about perfect grammar anyway haha.</p>