<p>WOW, Keithro, McGill?? CONGRATS (:</p>
<p>And about the alphabetical stuff--I dunno...cause its been like 3 days and no word. I'm a Z, but...there's still only a very small chance it would take THAT long.</p>
<p>Damn college admissions. They really DO live just to freak us the hell out.</p>
<p>I never got an email, and I just got a letter today that says I was waitlisted.
:/
good luck to everyone else</p>
<p>Hm... I should check my mail.</p>
<p>I dunno, Reed is cool, but I'm not sure 1300 is the right size for me anyway.</p>
<p>yeah it's definitely not alphabetical cause i'm an H and my friend who's an M got one and got in.</p>
<p>How many hours a day do you study. I'd like to know since my admitted son has heard some horror stories. One student told me that her mom called it a pressure cooker. is this pretty much true? Thanks</p>
<p>I just got a letter today telling me that I was waitlisted, which is odd, since I got into Williams (with an early write, nonetheless). Oh well, I had already decided that if I got in, I wouldn't go. It's too far away for me (I'm on the east coast). Good luck to everyone who hasn't heard yet.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted as well... I need some time to think things over and decide if it's really worth the effort to try to get in.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted...by when do you think we'll know if there's a spot?</p>
<p>waitlisted... so if you received no email=waitlisted...thought so =/....</p>
<p>also waitlisted</p>
<p>The competition is probably a fair bit tougher than most people may assume. It's probably a fair estimate that there were about 230 slots available for RD applicants, and there were probably something like 2750 RD applicants. My guess is the RD "yield" is in the neibhborhood of 20-25% (the EA/ED yield last year was about 60%), which means that adcom would have to admit 4 to 5 times the 230 target figure -- namely, between 920 and 1150 admittances from the roughly 2750 RD applicants. So that means that the admittance rate is probably somewhere between 33% and 42% of RD applicants. </p>
<p>Given the large uncertainty about the yield, perhaps because of the size of the overall increase in the number of applicants this year, they build in a large margin of error in the waitlist. Last year they placed 775 students on the waitlist, and 15 of their freshman class came from that waitlist. But keep in mind that if students are on multiple waitlists, Reed probably offered admission to a lot more than 15 off of the waitlist. (Still, 775 was a huge number!)</p>
<p>This is all a big guestimate, of course. But it means that roughly 3/5 to 2/3 of all RD applicants are rejected or waitlisted. I really feel for you guys!</p>
<p>If you really want to attend Reed then start calling your admin counselor and asking about your place in line! I know kids who got off waitlists by bugging the admissions often. My S was admitted but the financial aid is zero so he's going to the school that offered him some sweet mullah in the form of merit aid...see now there is an opening...go for it!</p>
<p>I got waitlisted.... :( That sucks....</p>
<p>Texasmom: do we just call admissions? What did the people you know say? Like, they just went, "Can I find out what my place in line for Reed is?" and that was it? Or did they ask more than that?</p>
<p>Gahhh I want to get into Reed so bad ):</p>
<p>this year was a weird one for reed. there was a record 3052 applications for about 400 spots, but it shows that reed is really becoming a desiarble school for the eastern ivy set.</p>
<p>i think a better tactic, rather than bugging the admissions officers (they already have enough to do), is to simply look back at potential weaknesses on your part. i mean, go ahead and ask about relative pacement (i'm not sure if they have a ranked listing, just general groups), but don't call over and over. have someone unfamiliar look at your app to reed, and have them tell you what they think, and use those to send in any supporting credentials to show progress (like i did with my abysmal grades). proof that you want to go is, just throwing an idea out there, way better that a nagging phone call, because remember, it's just generally better to show than to tell.</p>
<p>zeno,
here's a link that might help your son with his decision:
<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/reedlj/601955.html%5B/url%5D">http://community.livejournal.com/reedlj/601955.html</a></p>
<p>this is from a question put out on the
"reedwatcher"--a community on livejournal that is for and by reedies. it is a wealth of information. <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/reedlj/%5B/url%5D">http://community.livejournal.com/reedlj/</a> </p>
<p>there is also a community for the class of 2010:
<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/reed2010/%5B/url%5D">http://community.livejournal.com/reed2010/</a></p>
<p>and the class of 2009:
<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/reed2009/%5B/url%5D">http://community.livejournal.com/reed2009/</a></p>
<p>my daughter is a freshman and spends a lot of time studying, and also a lot of time in class (she is a science major). but reedies also leave time for play. they realize they need to relax too. there are an incredible amount of options to choose from every week. the school has what is called the "gray fund"--an endowment left to the college to provide students with enrichment off campus absolutely free.
(trips include transportation, cost of the event, and sometimes lunch/dinner and even favors to bring home.) you can find out more about it on
<a href="http://web.reed.edu/student_activities/gray_fund/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.reed.edu/student_activities/gray_fund/index.html</a></p>
<p>and this is a link for other activities:<br>
<a href="http://events.reed.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://events.reed.edu/</a></p>
<p>Reed is intense academically, but there are rewards for the dilligence--both short and long term. if you have any more questions, i'd be happy to try and help. good luck to your son!</p>
<p>zeno, I agree completely with metermaid. It's my impression that our freshman D enjoys studying much more (and studies much more) than she did in high school. She adores her profs (my word, not hers). To quote cassius: "They all are 10000 YEAR OLD ANCIENT SPIRITS OF KNOWLEDGE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING." This is meant most positively. Due to a schedule change, our D had to more from one course's section to another; she was troubled about leaving a prof she really liked, but found that she likes the new one just as well if not better. So, hard, hard work (crazy at times, she says) but she has a lot of fun, too.</p>
<p>This is an addendum to my post #71 above. Reed now reports that it offered admission to 1201 out of 3051 applicants, for an admission rate of 39.4% -- the first time it's been under 40% since Reed started tracking such statistics.</p>
<p>Based on the total of 3051 applicants and assuming that the number of ED applicants was about 230 (up from last year's reported 204), then there were probably ca. 2800 RD applicants. And of those something like 1060 were admitted. So the RD admit rate was probably close to 38% -- roughly midway in my earlier projected range of 33% to 42%.</p>