<p>What is Reed looking for in the writing sample? Is the admission committee trying to evaluate the applicants grammar, thought process, a combination of the two, or some other aspect that I have not mentioned?</p>
<p>I think they look at the content, the style, the grammar...
Not quite sure if it necessarily has to be of academic nature, (some exhaustive assesment on a particular topic or a critical commentary.)
By the way, isnt the writing sample supposed to be something you have already written as a classwork or homework assignment with the teacher's grade and comments?
And yeah the word limit isnt supposed to matter?</p>