<p>Has anybody gotten off the waitlist yet this year? Also, does anyone know if Reed generally waits until the summer to hand out the bulk of their waitlist acceptances, or rather if that'll be happening soon (e.g. early May)? I'm getting so anxious!</p>
<p>They have already admitted a record total number of applicants. Who knows what will happen? There’s a phenomenon known as summer melt where those who have elected to attend change their intentions because of a WL offer elsewhere.</p>
<p>[Reed?s</a> Acceptance Rate Rises: Admissions Seeks to Grow Applicant Pool - The Quest | The Free Press of Reed College](<a href=“http://www.reedquest.org/2013/04/reeds-acceptance-rate-rises-admissions-seeks-to-grow-applicant-pool/]Reed?s”>http://www.reedquest.org/2013/04/reeds-acceptance-rate-rises-admissions-seeks-to-grow-applicant-pool/)</p>
<p>I don’t see where that article says they admitted a record number of applicants, just that their acceptance rate has risen. But the number of applications fell.</p>
<p>1356 admitted versus 2010’s total of 1311 per CDS:</p>
<p>[Reed</a> College 2010-11 Common Data Set SecC](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/cds/cds1011/cdssecc201011.html]Reed”>Reed College 2010-11 Common Data Set SecC - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>That’s kind of a bummer. So if there even is any drawing from the waitlist it’ll be minimal?</p>
<p>Curious if anyone has gotten off the waitlist at Reed, and if they are sticking to their no FA policy? We considered staying in the game, but the waitlist information was clear: no financial aid would be available for kids accepted off the waitlist. It is an interesting approach to hear a school take, as I have heard a good way for a student to initiate a move off waitlist at any school is to remove any request for FA from the application, but I have never heard of a college making this decision. Anyway, it took the choice out of it for us.</p>
<p>Is that this year alone/information received via personal communication? From [url=<a href=“Apply - Admission - Reed College”>Apply - Admission - Reed College]Reed</a> College | Admission | Reed College Admission Office<a href=“I%20think%20they%20say%20it%20may%20be%20early%20May%20or%20later%20there,%20Oregone;%20the%20whole%20thing%20is%20probably%20a%20good%20resource”>/url</a>, they say “Our financial aid budget situation varies from year to year, and there have been years when financial aid has been available for students on the waiting list.” Your suggestion that it is a “policy” implies not.</p>
<p>Anyway, about that article, I wouldn’t let it discourage you too much. A big reason for the increased acceptance rate is trying to cast a wider net and potentially recruit more international students, who are full pay but also have a lower chance of matriculating to Reed, given that that college isn’t (yet) well known there. 45 isn’t a huge number more if they accepted 100 people who all only have a 50% chance of coming (this is not a really well reasoned mathematical example, I can’t think of another way to put it right now).</p>
<p>Chin up: Reed’s known to take chances and they might take one on you, even though the chances are slimmer now. Good luck!</p>
<p>This year, the waitlist letter personally received indicated clearly no financial aid would be available for students coming off the waitlist. Thank you for the clarification from the admission office link. It is good to hear it may not be Reed’s absolute approach (“policy”), and may be different in other years (consider the gap year, consider the transfer, consider the class of 2018). </p>
<p>Anyway, it is not applicable to us as FA is just far too important for this year, and all future years. But you raise hope for other students in other years. Or, given this information, I wonder if there is a chance that students getting off the waiting list may receive FA after that first year, if they are accepted and matriculate. But I only hopefully speculate: no promise of any future FA that was ever indicated or promised in the waitlist letter, so I would hope students clarify what the conditions of their particular waitlist admission will be if FA is an issue.</p>
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<p>[Reed</a> College | Financial Aid | Reed’s Philosophy](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/financialaid/handbook_philosophy.html]Reed”>http://www.reed.edu/financialaid/handbook_philosophy.html)</p>
<p>vonlost, thank you so much for that information! I really, really wish Reed had included this more complete information in their original letter, as we looked at 4 years of basically our entire family income spent on college tuition, and could not see any way whatsoever to make that happen. I do not know if it would have made a difference for us, as even the first year was just too much for us to take on, as well as family contributions in subsequent years – we had very good aid promised at other schools and of course guaranteed admission – but it may have gone a different way with the waitlist had we known. </p>
<p>Hopefully it is helpful for someone else this year and in the future now that it is part of the record here.</p>
<p>I heard that some top colleges are not going thru their wait list this year (i.e, Colby). I hope Reed is not one of them…</p>
<p>I got off the waitlist earlier this month. Was called by the dean of admissions on May 4. He kinda half asked me to commit on the phone. Got the impression that there were a few other people, but not many who got off the waitlist that early. I sent in a supplemental essay, a letter from my mentor and letter from myself. A friend of mine who declined a spot on the waitlist told the college to let me in. Was super surprised that i got waitlisted in the first place, because my gpa is below a 3.0 although my test scores are on or above target for reed. I did not apply for financial aid.</p>
<p>Anybody else hear anything? I’m about to submit my final grade report. I did well, but if the thing about no financial aid is true then it’s essentially futile.</p>
<p>I’m a parent of a student on the wait list. The second week of May I wrote and called the Director of Financial Aid, and was told that all financial aid has been handed out, and that no students who need financial aid, only students who can pay full tuition will get off the wait list. Her exact words were “He will never get off the wait list” (we are a family that put in for financial aid). If you are a wait list student who put in for financial aid it is hopeless according to the Director of Financial Aid for you to ever get off the 2013/14 wait list. Knowing this fact can at least stop your tension as you wait to hear possible good news for months on end. I believe that the right and responsible thing for Reed College to have done was to notify all wait list students who had financial aid needs that they would never get off the wait list, instead of leaving them out to dry, waiting for as long as multiple months to see if they could get off the wait list, when there was zero chance. This speaks of withholding information, insensitivity, a kind of recklessness with young people’s trust and well being. An as early as possible email should have been sent to all wait list kids who need financial aid saying that they will never get off. Shame on Reed College.</p>
<p>Reed meets 100% need, but they are pretty transparent about being need aware.
If a student really needs Reed to spell it out for them exactly what a waitlist means under those circumstances, it isnt the school for them.
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<p>I do agree that waitlisting applicants who need financial aid makes no sense if Reed didn’t intend to award any financial aid to waitlisted students in the first place. The admission office shouldn’t have gotten people’s hopes up.</p>
<p>Schools don’t know until May 1 how many FA applicants will accept offers. If more than expected do, none can be taken from the waitlist.</p>