I thought I’d start a board for prospective transfer students, as I am one of them!
Hey there! I’m a prospective transfer student, too! Just a quick question - does the transfer common application not have an honors section for academic honors within the “Education” section?
Hello! Fellow transfer applicant here. Hi all. 
Does anyone know, if we will receive our decisions by next week Friday? I know that the official date for notifications is May 1st, but by looking at previous threads, decisions came out as early as April 27th. Good luck everyone!
hi! I’m not sure if decisions will be out but I hope! My friend got in as a transfer 2016/2017 in late April, so it seems to be a pattern. But I would speculate that this year it might be later because regular decision students found out much later than in past years. However, waitlist students have already begun being admitted, which is unusual. I don’t know! I’m just stressed and WANT to know…hope this helps!
@coolbeans2021 Yeah, it definitely does! Same here though! Good luck to you!
Coolbeans2021–Did your friend who was accepted as a transfer student in 2016-17 get notified by mail or portal?
Ahhhh I really hope that our decisions arrive today! 
Portal! They later sent a package to her house but she first heard through portal…I talked with a friend who works in Admissions and he said they’re running late this year with admittances, and he hasn’t started packing any boxes yet for the transfers 
so I would say we won’t know until may
@coolbeans2021 So it is all over mail this year, right? That is what a Admissions Officer told me at least… but I know, over the past years applicants heard back via email first… Ahhh this waiting makes me so nervous! Good luck to you!
Hopefully we’ll start hearing soon!
Please post when you get a yay or nay. And theoretically you can try to sign up for the fedex delivery manager to see if you have a package queued up to your address…
I’m super confused. I just got an email from Reed saying they’ll be (somewhat) near my area and there’s still time to interview. Weren’t decisions supposed to be mailed by today?
Well, you could certainly email back and ask them that question…
Yes, decisions are supposed to be “postmarked” today.
@thshadow That was the first thing I did, actually!
I’ve been speaking with friends who work in admissions (trust me this doesn’t give me a leg up) and they’ve said they haven’t been packaging any acceptances yet, so either our decisions will be VERY late or through email…they’ve also said that although they have no idea what’s going on they know the admissions program at Reed is a little weird and unpredictable. I’ve signed up for the Fedex package notifier but I’m debating shutting it down so I don’t make myself too anxious. May 1 though…they should be soon!
Thanks @coolbeans2021 ! Please keep us informed. It will save a lot of people from stressing over it too early…
DD just received an email from Reed, 11pm at night - she was accepted!
Good luck everyone!
@thshadow Congratulations! May I ask, if she got accepted as a transfer applicant or was accepted from the waitlist? I heard from the Admission Office that they sent out transfer admission decisions only via physical mail this year, so I was just wondering…
She was accepted as a transfer student. May 1st was when the transfer decisions would be “postmarked”. And when we visited, they insisted that the decisions would only be released by physical mail.
But I guess plans changed for some reason. They sent her an email around 9pm PST. They also say that her “admission packet” is in the mail.
Also - there’s a 2 week deadline to confirm.
@thshadow Great, thank you so much for this information! Ahhh, I am wondering then, if the Admission Office will start to send out decisions via email from now… That is how it seems at least. Congratulations again!