Reed College.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everyone! As a junior, like many of you here, I'm desperately trying to get everything in line for college admissions over the course of the next year. And again like most of you, I would really, really like to know my chances at certain colleges, as application fees can be expensive, and I hate being dissappointed. Hopefully you will be able to mollify my emotions. I would be eternally grateful if some of you could look over this transcript and let me know my chances of getting into Reed College, in Oregon.</p>

<p>I plan to be a chemistry major there. Also, if any of you know any good "match" schools for me, I would be most pleased to hear them. On to the statistics:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.9 cumulative unweighted, ~4.5 cumulative weighted.
SAT: Expecting a 2200, and working hard to achieve it. Hopefully 720V, 740M, 740W.
AP Tests: Taking Chemistry, Biology, English, hoping for 4/5 on each. Next year taking Physics, Calculus, expecting 4/5 on both.
Class Rank: 29/800. (Yes, we have 800 juniors.)</p>

<p>Junior Year Curriculum
- AP Chemistry
- AP Biology
- AP English
- AP History
- Honors Japanese 3
- Honors Pre-calculus</p>

<p>Senior Year Curriculum
- AP English IV
- AP Econ/Government
- AP Physics
- AP Japanese 4
- AP European History
- AP Calculus A/B</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (Weak, I know)
- 1 year Policy Debate
- 2 years Japanese Club
- 2 years Chess Team
- 2 years Peer Tutoring
- 2 years NHS
- 4 years Guitar
- ~50 hours community service.</p>

<p>I'll have good recommendations, as the teachers I will request them from like me, and know me very well. I like to think I write decent essays (very important to Reed), but I really don't have any idea. On the AP rubric, im usually getting ~90%, though I don't know how much this applies to abstract essays such as the type Reed may ask.</p>

<p>Anything else is available upon request. Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>come back when you know your sat scores.</p>

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<p>If you get ~700 on all 3 sectionc of the SAT, Reed is definitely in sight</p>

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<p>Bob: Well, I got a 210 on my PSAT without any preparation, so I'm hoping that isn't too far off. In practice exams, my scores have been steadily improving also. Does reed place that much emphasis on the SAT?</p>

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<p>reed really isn't the type of place to emphasize the SAT.... I think they'll want to see some real intellectualism, something beyond just getting good grades, as well as some indication that you're an extremely hard workers, which is the only way you'll survive reed. I have a hunch that good recs and essays (maybe even interviews) would go much farther than a 2200.</p>