That’s so lame! I’m expecting rejection anyway though so that can wait I guess
@7327777 What do you mean by a letter? As in, physical mail? Because I live halfway across the world and I imagine if they send out letter I won’t learn of my decision until April 2016
That seems really late for a snail mail notification…
What are the chances that they’re messing w us
Hi is it true that they are not sending emails this year? Someone posted that it would be letters only on April 1st. That would make them the last school to give us notice and not a lot of time to make a decision.
Isn’t someone from reed admission on this thread. Swati?
@Esat936 - same for my D!
I don’t see how that could be at all true. It’s much more of an inconvenience to send out snail mail, it just wouldn’t make sense.
Also, I thought they had to let us know by April 1? Starting to send mail out then wouldn’t comply with that.
If they are serious about the whole “snail mail” thing, I’d die before it could reach me (international student here).
ugh im going out of town that week, so i’m not gonna know for a super long time, i guess.
Darn you, Reed admissions! Please just send us e-mails! It’s more convenient that way. 
I feel like I should have applied to just all LACs (Except maybe UChicago, I would have kept that application, and maybe other LAC like schools like URochester and Brandeis) because that’s what I want in a college now. I only applied to 5, and the two that I heard back from were Grinnell with a waitlist and Middlebury with a rejection. The rest are Reed, Carleton, and Oberlin, and I really want to get into Reed because it is my first choice, but I would be insanely happy with being able to go to any liberal arts college. I hope Reed liked my essays.
@Cosmological
I really do wish I had done so too. At this point, I have no idea why I even applied to Tufts, Rice, or WashU. I know I will be rejected from all 3 (and I was already rejected at WashU, to which I wantonly applied ED). I was rejected by Carleton today too. I applied to those unis because I was being pressured by my mom to pursue engineering, but after we visited a few LACs she sees how well I would fit in there and is more supportive of my science interests. I feel like I’m going to be rejected everywhere else and I’ll have to choose between Macalester and Grinnell (which isn’t a bad thing but these rejections are starting to sting).
There are so many other LACs in the Midwest that are less than a 10 hour drive that I should have applied to…St. Olaf, Oberlin, Kenyon…and I would probably be accepted to more of them. Hell, why not even generous ones on the east coast so we could afford flight? Middlebury, Vassar, Colby, Wesleyan etc. In addition, “100% need” LACs seem to be more generous to me than “100% need” research universities.
I had also planned to apply to URochester and Brandeis–I ruled out the former because they weren’t as generous enough with financial aid and I don’t remember why I didn’t apply to Brandeis. I wrote the supplement essay and everything. I said that currency should be uninvented.
UChicago for me was a bit of a pipe dream though. No way I’d be accepted, and nobody from my school has been accepted there for years, but there was one kid who got in this year! And that kid wasn’t me.
I’d also be really content at just about any LAC. At this point, I want an affordable LAC with a strong physics program that will get me into graduate school well prepared, a factor that seems to be fairly common among LACs.
Also, congrats on getting into Brandeis. I talked to a professor from there a few months ago and he told me all about the physics stuff going on. It’s a really neat school and I think it’s really underrated; I don’t hear about it that much, but of course we don’t hear about any school in Missouri but Mizzou.
I’m feeling the same way Cosmo, all the LAC seem pretty great, and increasing the number of apps would’ve increased the chance of being at one of these amazing schools (and having some choice too!).
I only applied to Pomona (Waitlist), Grinnell (Acceptance), Oberlin, and Reed. Pomona was my first choice, but Reed is a close second. My supplemental essay was pretty shite though… I just want to know already.
@Ctesiphon - “I want an affordable LAC with a strong physics program that will get me into graduate school well prepared”.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Count me in on the LAC regret train. So far I have 2 rejections and a waitlist (at Carleton) and Reed is the only LAC from which I’m yet to hear. The fact that Reed is my #1 choice isn’t making the wait any easier.
Applying to all LACs is definitely the way to go. I’m choosing between Carleton, Kenyon, and Middlebury. If Reed’s decision ever arrives, it’ll be another option…
On their twitter they said they will be mailing decisions the last week of March. So hopefully we will be getting them within the next few days (depending on where you live)
Last week of March could mean the beginning of next week though, couldn’t it? Since that week is partly March and partly April. I’m not sure which that means…
I don’t get it. Carnegie Mellon has clearly said their mailings go out on March 25 and results will be posted online on March 28. Why can’t Reed make a similar clear statement?