Prospective Transfer's Why Reed Essay

Foxymoron
Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:52:04 +0000

I’m a freshman looking to transfer to Reed for the 2014-2015 school year.

Would you care to read my essay and give me some pointers? My concern is that because I wrote this just after reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the essay is heavily stylized and maybe a little too dramatic.

If it is important, I applied to Reed after my senior year of high school and was not accepted. I am doing considerably better in college than in my senior year, having so far earned a 3.8 gpa for the Fall term.

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