Factors in Reed admissions process

<p>I understand that the admissions office at Reed weighs different factors very differently from most places. Would anyone care to shed some light on this? Is there anything really unusual that they consider heavily when making an admissions decision?</p>

<p>I think this is a good answer:</p>

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