<p>Top however-many reasons for choosing Reed?</p>
<p>I'm applying for the intellectual side - the undergraduate-focused learning for the sake of learning feel</p>
<p>plus, i enjoy that Reed chose not to participate in US News Rankings</p>
<p>I chose Reed because it isn't a joke.</p>
<p>In an age where college is much more about rankings, statistics, and perceived greatness, Reed remains unphased in its mission of delivering undergraduates a challenging, yet enlightening education.</p>
<p>I'm applying because Reed deemphasizes grades and rank and all that hogwash and celebrates learning for learning's sake. It's so refreshing to find a school that recognizes that there is more to life than numbers and letters that honestly really don't mean anything in life. I believe that there's no true way to quantify how much knowledge you've obtained or how much potential you carry. In the long run, what are they truly measuring? How much you've learned or how good of a guesser you are? (I know this isn't always true, but I see it often enough.)</p>
<p>I suppose my grades aren't the best and I'm a weaker applicant than many in the applicant pool (3.5 UW gpa, 3.9 W, 29 ACT, 1270 SAT, top 15%) but I hope Reed will overlook that (I'm interviewing with the assistant dean of admissions tomorrow :D). I guess I might not be as cookie-cutter but I think potential should be derived more how driven a person is rather than past performance in school. Because the person who works hard and wants to do well will probably have a likelier chance of persevering than the person who has done well in the past, but can't seem to muster up the energy to try when the times get tough...</p>
<p>IMO, anyway. XD</p>
<p>Reed is a perfect ( well, this word is an absolute, but cant live without it) match for me. The intelluctual curiosity, and the thorough reading of the viewbook of Reed enhanced my dreams of getting into Reed. I found that academically Reed is one of the best colleges in the US. Plus it has its own standards... and I am even more eager to join Reed beacause it had the audacity to opt out of US News Rankings.!!</p>
<p>Now if they could just lower tuition.</p>
<p>My D had an instate public school as her first choice for several years. When we received the aid package from Reed, and found that it would be as affordable as the Instate public- which was a larger school with less resources, it was an easy decision to for her to attend Reed- once she had made the committment to the high level of intensity.</p>
<p>I love the intellectualism of Reed...but some things are keeping me from applying</p>
<p>1) too local (to me, college is supposed to be an adventure, and it's not an adventure if you're within 1.5 hours of home)
2) while I'm all for not caring about grades, it's tough when you're wanting to go to medical school after college
3) no neuroscience mayor</p>
<p>TONS of Reedies have gone on to earn medical degrees billybobby. And 9/10 people major in BIOLOGY, not their specific field to get into medical school. The top med schools attended by Reed grads: Harvard, Stanford, UCSF, Cornell, and UWashington. Pretty impressive to me.</p>
<p>Just repeating what's been said. Reed gives out grades just like any other school: A, A-, B+, B, B- etc. You have grade reports, transcripts, etc. Sent to grade schools. The whole works. The only difference is that profs generally don't show grades on work done in classes, preferring to show numerous comments instead or to show a curve and mark where your grade might fall on the curve. But grades are definitely recorded and students can see them whenever they want. </p>
<p>It's well known that graduate and professional (law, med, business) schools know Reed and Reed students are admitted to these schools at high rates and do extremely well.</p>
<p>You can see from here:</p>
<p><a href="http://web.reed.edu/ir/medschool.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.reed.edu/ir/medschool.html</a></p>
<p>that Reed students currently have an 85% acceptance rate at med school.</p>