Is Hampshire a reach for me?

bogbeast
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:01:42 +0000

Greetings,

I’m currently a freshman at Reed College and I’m considering transferring to Hampshire. I’m applying for the fall 2012 semester and I’m kind of concerned about my first semester grades affecting my application–I ended up getting mono and strep throat for the last portion of this past semester, missed about 3 weeks of classes and, accordingly, didn’t do incredibly well on the last few tests. The beginning of the semester was good, but a bit shaky with transitioning and all of that, but I got to where I wanted to be (or around where I’d like to be) academically just before I got sick.

So, I’m just kind of wary that, although I did well in high school (5th in my public school class, lots of EC’s, volunteer hours, almost broke 2000 on the SAT’s, above 700’s on 2 subject tests, etc.), the application committee may doubt my abilities because of my first semester grades and they won’t see much, if any of, my second semester stuff.

Anyone able to shed some light?

Thanks!