Reed chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Reed College
1

<p>White/Asian, Female</p>

<p>GPA - 3.95 UW</p>

<p>(lowered by a C+ and A- in college-level German)</p>

<p>SAT - 2400</p>

<p>Advanced Classes (no honors available):
10th grade:
AP English Language (5)</p>

<p>11th grade:
AP English Lit (5)
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP US History (4)
AP US Government (5)
College-in-High-School German (my third year)</p>

<p>12th grade:
AP European History
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry
College-in-High-School German (my fourth year)</p>

<p>Will most likely be taking AP German test</p>

<p>Total: 8 or 9</p>

<p>SAT II TESTS: </p>

<p>Literature - 780
Math II - 730</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>2 years of school newspaper -- sadly, it's a class, and I only had room in my schedule to take it during freshman and junior years</p>

<p>4 years community service at public library</p>

<p>4 year German club</p>

<p>4 years National Honor Society</p>

<p>2 years debate team (made it to State tournament in three divisions)</p>

<p>7 years piano, outside of school</p>

<p>I'm aware that my ECs are rather bare-bones.</p>

<p>Thank you, anyone who might take time out of their day to chance me. =)</p>

2

<p>Your numeric stats are clearly good enough, so it will depend on why you want to attend Reed and on the adcom’s perception of what you would add to the campus.</p>

3

<p>I agree with Vossron, if it were solely a number’s game, you’re in faster than 4G (just got up, simile skills aren’t totally there yet :P). But, you have to demonstrate passion for the school. None of us have read your “Why Reed?” essay, so we can’t say for sure whether you’ll get in or not; we also don’t know how strong a writer you are, which I think is a big factor too (Reed strikes me as a writing-heavy school). Or, at least, one should demonstrate potential for being a skilled writer, since high school seniors aren’t exactly academia-material yet XD</p>

<p>Good luck to you anyway, and I hope to see you at O-week in August! (I got in ED, yayy)</p>

4

<p>The median scores of Reed students are readily accessible on the College Board website, Wikipedia, etc. If you are really worried about your stats when you have a 2400 SAT, you need help.</p>

<p>Anyways, essays are an important part of the application and you have not posted any.</p>

5

<p>Thank you, everyone who responded. </p>

<p>I wrote my “Why Reed?” essay about the uniqueness and value of Reed’s focus on academia and giving students an “education” that relies on more than facts and figures, and how I would (hypothetically) look back on my years at Reed and know that I had experienced something amazing. I also included points about how the intimate and welcoming feel of the school would help me grow (I’m very shy) and how its acceptance of all things “quirky” would really let me express myself and add one more mildly eccentric voice to the student body. I included a loving shout-out to the MLLL (Comic Book Reading Room). </p>

<p>I know that my numbers seem good enough, but I know that Reed takes a more holistic approach than some other colleges, and I was more focused on whether my entire application, notably my ECs, seemed good at first brush. It’s probably just being on CC a little too often, but I’ve grown a bit neurotic (perhaps unjustifiably so) about my extracurriculars, or lack thereof, and the entire picture that my application paints. </p>

<p>Thanks again.</p>

6

<p>Reed does look more holistically, yes, but what that implies is that it puts great weight on the intangibles and subjective factors (as a CCer would put it) than the concrete numbers.</p>

<p>Lol you like comic books? That’s cool. It’s a shame it’s not in your ECs :frowning: That would’ve added more uniqueness.</p>