Accepted!!
Sorry, wrote to the wrong thread. As for my Reed decision, I was denied 
Accepted! Got email confirmation but no package yet.
3.8/4.0 GPA, 1410 SAT ( for those looking in the future )
My D19 was deferred to RD – 4.0 uw/35 ACT. Congratulations who got through in EA!
Does anyone know when we will hear about financial aid?
Wow, @BorgityBorg - that’s surprising! Perhaps it was yield protection? My D is 3.8 uw/35 ACT. She also demonstrated interest by visiting the campus (not feasible for many people, I know) and interviewing.
I’m sure she’ll get in in RD along with many other great schools!
@dla26 – the deferral was somewhat surprising, yes, though at Reed’s overall 35%-ish admit rate, we’re getting close to the level of… not exactly randomness when it comes to admission decisions, but something that appears more random if you’re on this side of the curtain.
She visited… twice, actually. Well, really just once for the whole info session/interview/class visit thing, the second time we happened to be in Portland for summer vacation and we stopped by. I think it’s a good fit for her – I think all the schools she applied to are good fits for various reasons – but perhaps she failed to convey that sufficiently. (Or perhaps they disagree she’s a good fit. And they would know better, right? 
) She is the running for a top scholarship at St. Olaf, so I’m going to surmise that her overall application is fine. Perhaps it is financial aid related – we don’t have an EFC of $0, but by no means are we full pay, either.
In any case, it does appear like deferral at Reed means something more like “we need to sit with this app a little bit more” and less like a likely RD rejection and hopefully my daughter can send a couple more things along that will convey her serious interest in the institution. It has been up to this point one of her top two choices, and had she gotten in, I think that would have solidified that notion. But since she already has 3 admissions, and Reed’s decision will now likely be the last she receives even after her other RD choices, I don’t know if that changes.
But congratulations to your D!
@dla26 , @BorgityBorg - my own daughter went through the selective liberal arts college admissions gauntlet two years ago and I found that there is less predictability than one might think. With holistic admissions at schools at this level, it isn’t just about stats and financial need. She was waitlisted at Grinnell, for example but accepted at Swarthmore, Wes and other schools that are usually seen as a harder admit. In the end, it is a bit of a crapshoot.
@BorgityBorg - 2 days after getting into Reed, my D got word that she got into her ED2 school (Haverford), so she just contacted Reed to decline the offer of admission. It was bittersweet since she really did like Reed. Anyway, hope that opens a spot up!
Accepted (not sure if I’ll go now). I’m in IB so no GPA, but my predicted score should be around 39-40/42. My sat is 1490. I wrote a very quirky and special kind of ps, so Reed was my safety school (UChicago was my top reach). Not sure how other schools would see my ps, but Reed is always a decent choice. I also have 3 APs and 2 SAT2s.
Accepted! So excited for Preview Day! 99.9% sure I’m going to attend-just have to talk to some Literature-Theatre majors and see what exactly that program is like before I make my final decision.
@dla26 Congratulations to your daughter on the Haverford acceptance – another excellent school. That’s another one of my D’s schools, though it’s RD for her, and not her highest choice. It seems unlikely to me that her acceptances fall in a way that leads her to Haverford, but given how selectivity and fit at this level of college admissions can lead to an overall set of admissions decisions that aren’t entirely intuitive to the outside observer, not ruling anything out.
@KatlynneeHu - I don’t think Reed can be considered a safety by anyone. Don’t necessarily assume that because of its USNWR ranking (#90) that it’s of the same caliber as similarly ranked institutions. If USNWR were somehow based on the overall quality of the institution, I’d say that Reed should probably be ranked somewhere around 15-20 of national LACs.
To those with high stats but not immediately admitted, note that stats comprise only 20% of Reed admission criteria:
https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/spring2008/features/many_apply/5.html
@vonlost – that was an interesting article to review, wonder how it’s changed (if at all) in the past decade besides the elimination of the “Why Reed?” essay (replaced with a different Reed-specific question). I do include course rigor (another 20%) as part of the stats/scores dimension (and I think my daughter would score fine there as well), but totally recognize that it’s impossible to know her scores on the other dimensions. And, as I’ve noted above (I think?), financial aid or overall class characteristic considerations could also have not helped her out on this round.
We are hopeful for RD, but she has other acceptances already, and who knows what the whole RD round will bring. Now I’d like to just fast-forward 5-7 weeks…
@vonlost, while there are (were ? - article is a decade old) 5 major categories of info used to determine the final admissions status, I would be surprised if each category is equally weighted. I would still think that academic stats and difficulty of course load would have a greater weight than just 20 percent of the final decision. Just a guess here, but the bottom line remains that the admissions process is more an art than a science.
This article well explains why the process is indeed an art and not a science:
https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/winter06/columns/End_Paper/index.html
My son is accepted at Reed ED 2. SAT 1550, ACT 35, UW GPA 3.95. From Michigan. The Admissions Dean referenced his application essay in a hand written note on his letter of acceptance. Very cool. Waiting now for FA offer. Fingers crossed.
Congrats! Your son’s stats are amazing! He should be very proud of his accomplishments.
Thanks! He’s too humble to feel proud of his accomplishments so I boast about him instead
. He is ecstatic about going to Reed, though. And we are happy at the very generous financial aid offer they gave us. Portland here we come!