<p>As a Reed alum, albeit of yesteryear, I found it fairly straight forward. I was a social science major (international studies, I think it is called international policy studies now) and had taken a fairly broad and heavy courseload my first two years. The most important part was getting clearance in advance from the chair of the dept at Reed for the courses I was planning to take to ensure the credits would transfer.</p>
<p>Best thing about it was that it gave me a new found appreciation for the quality of the education I was receiving at Reed, and just how rigorous my Reed education was compared to the milk toast my fellow American students were receiving at other brand name American institutions. I spent my junior year at a decent “red brick” university in the UK. While the other Yanks were complaining about the hard work, I found it to be a piece of cake and enjoyed using free time to travel. I had no problem coming back prepared to write my thesis senior year.</p>
<p>In short, you need to prepare but it is certainly worth doing!</p>