<p>Hi,
I am a senior from India and have applied to the class of 2018 at reed. </p>
<p>Lately (Feb and March), I've been getting a lot of promotional emails from Reed. I'm quite used to promos from colleges and univs but this is quite unusual as I've been getting these mails long after the application deadline.</p>
<p>Most of the emails are like, "We read your 'Why Reed' response; Here's ours:" and "What is the Reed Honor Code".
I don't quite understand why they would send these emails right now, since I have already applied and the deadlines are long past already.</p>
<p>Have you guys been receiving similar emails? </p>
<p>They know that applicants are applying to several colleges and that applicants continue to learn and form opinions of the schools they’ve applied to. They want to increase opinion of Reed to up the amount of students who accept their offer when the time comes. They recently sent out their “last” email and said it would be the last until decisions came out. Everyone was getting them. </p>
<p>Yup, I got the ‘last’ email too. How do you know “everyone’s” been getting these emails? Have you applied to Reed too?</p>
<p>My daughter did as well as a couple friends. They were all moping about getting the “last” email. </p>
<p>This is from a faculty meeting report in the online student newspaper, ReedQuest.org. Note the last two sentences:</p>
<p>President’s Report on Admissions
President John Kroger gave an update on admissions information for the coming 2014-2015 year. This year, Reed had 3943 applications, up from 2890 last year, which is roughly 500 more applicants than Reed’s best year ever. The average SAT score is 1345, up from 1339 last year. Diversity is also increasing, with African American applicants up 43 percent, Asian applicants up 49 percent, Hispanic applicants up 54 percent, Native American applicants up 52 percent. The number of students not applying for financial aid, as a rough percentage, is 22 percent, consistent with previous years. Kroger noted that yield may be more difficult this year, as Admissions has to figure out how to best draw their best applicants without going over or under the target class of 355 freshman students.
Keith Todd, Dean of Admissions, spoke to the faculty about sending emails and phone calls to desirable applicants in order to tip their interest in Reed. Todd solicited volunteers from the faculty to be given a few students that have expressed demonstrated aptitude in the major-field of the faculty member.</p>
<p>There is a difference between personalized emails/calls from faculty and department heads and generalized videos and articles sent through mass email. I would agree that if a staff member calls or sends an email clearly created for the recipient about the benefits of their specific department then absolutely… great sign! Most schools wait until decision comes out to start those though.</p>
<p>So I am applying to Reed as well… I did not receive any information, however, I did email kathy hoblitt quite a bit, and express a ton of interest so they may already know Reed is my #1…</p>
<p>Also when asked for my Reed ID, they reacted funny to the fact that mine starts with an I, does this mean anything to you? what do your ID’s start with? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@shazamo I don’t quite understand. Have you already applied or are you going to apply? If you had already applied then you should have long since received a decision from Reed. If you haven’t applied yet, then what Reed ID are you referring to?</p>
<p>@upapilot Yes, I applied, but never have I received any information other than to complete my financial aid. My question was is this normal? </p>
<p>Also my other question was about my Reed ID that was assigned to me when I applied. They needed it for reseting my financial aid banner and the lady was expecting a K following the numbers but mine started with an I which caused her to act weird. So i guess I am asking a two part question, what do the letters mean (if anything) and specifically why do most people have like “K123456” when I have “K123456”?</p>
<p>Oh btw I am a transfer… might help clarify a few things</p>
<p>I know they already have decisions out, and my portal has changed slightly so it seems positive, but I may not know until the 15th of May</p>
<p>@shazamo, are you confusing a capital I with a numeral 1 perhaps? You asked: why do most people have like “K123456” when I have “K123456” – um, those look exactly the same to me. </p>
<p>@AboutTheSame HAHA I meant “I123456” and no, it is a capital i… It is probably nothing, but, had to ask</p>
<p>Maybe transfer applicants have IDs starting with ‘I’? I’m not sure though. Try contacting the Reed office again and clarifying with them that you are in fact a transfer applicant and not a regular applicant. </p>