Does Reed University Reach Out To Random Students?

<h2>So I got the following email today, and it immediately strikes me as suspicious. 1. I'm a sophmore. 2. I've never expressed any interest in going there. 3. I've never even heard of it. </h2>

<p>Reed is a place of paradoxes. Often, it is a place where opposites meet—with fantastic and fascinating results. Allow us to make the introductions: Right brain, meet left brain. </p>

<h2>At Reed, you don't have to be a physics major, or even a science major, to operate the Research Reactor. And you don't have to be a theater major to direct twelve of your friends (from eight majors) in an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca. Students in an International Relations class play croquet together to illustrate nuclear politics, and everyone takes P.E.—but you can choose from 60 options including kayaking, juggling, and swing dancing. </h2>

<p>Then it gives me a username and password to make an inquiry about them. After googlging them, I'm even more sure that I wouldn't want to attend. But do they send a mass email like this all over the country? Thinking that other colleges do this makes me groan. Has anyone else received an email like this?</p>

<p>Colleges obtain email addresses for and send mail to all kinds of people. If you took the PSAT, they probably got it from there. I’ve been getting mail from random colleges for the past two or three years. It’s not a big deal…why are you all disgusted? :)</p>

<p>Reed is a top notch school. It’s too bad their email rubbed you this way.</p>

<p>You’ll be tapped by 100s of schools in the next 3 years. Maybe that’ll take away some of the surprise. It’s no big deal.</p>

<p>Reed College is actually a good school, unlike many of the schools that spam kids who did decently on their PSAT/SAT/ACT with junk mail (through the Student Search Service). This is just the beginning of your college spam, unfortunately.</p>

<p>To answer your question, yes. I have received a lot of unsolicited mail (physical and electronic) from Reed. I like the college (although it is excessively liberal), but unfortunately it does not offer the major I am looking for, so I never considered applying.</p>