<p>I could be wrong about this, but my feeling is that Reed probably isn’t a good place if you’re worried about grades. They don’t even give them out. You just get written teacher evaluations. They do record a grade somewhere so you have a transcript for grad. school, but when I did my overnight at Reed everyone seemed really chill about the traditional idea of grades, and more concerned with learning just for learning’s sake. Everyone also stressed that you better be motivated by more than grades because the work load is intense. Reed has a great reputation with grad schools and some of that rep is probably because that they know that Reed students don’t just work for grades. I want to go to grad school too but the main reason I like Reed isn’t its reputation with grad schools but the fact that people there seem to care about ideas and learning more than they do about grades and getting into grad school.</p>