To Reed Students and Alumni

<p>I’ve noticed that one thing the people who are having trouble adjusting to life at Reed tend to complain about is the workload. Personally, I don’t find it excessive, but the fact that some people do is definitely something you should be aware of.</p>

<p>Also, Reed has a pretty small African American population and isn’t very diverse in general. The school administration is doing a lot to change that and there’s a really active and cool [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/index.html]multicultural”&gt;http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/index.html]multicultural</a> resource center<a href=“the%20people%20there%20are%20great,%20really%20chill%20and%20funny%20and%20knowledgeable”>/url</a> and a peer mentor program, and a dean for institutional diversity, and Reedies are on the whole very passionate about building a more diverse and enlightened community, etc. etc. etc. BUT. As an African American, you should probably know that the actual AA population at Reed is very small.</p>

<p>Other than that, I really can’t think of anything. I’m loving Reed so far and have nothing to complain about. I actually think the Reed booklet I got last year (Inquire Within–is it still called that?) did a great job of presenting Reed accurately. It really is that awesome here :slight_smile: </p>

<p>To get a more realistic idea of what Reed is like, you can:</p>

<p>Request some Reed Magazine issues from the PR office; the alumni magazine gives an even better idea of what Reed is really about than the admissions office’s marketing materials.</p>

<p>and</p>

<p>Check the ‘reed college’ tag on tumblr. There’s a recent Reed alumna who runs a blog called unofficialreed over there, and she regularly answers questions from prospective students. She really knows her stuff.</p>

<p>and, of course</p>

<p>Visit and see for yourself! If you can, that is.</p>

<p>Oh, I almost forgot:</p>

<p>Reed doesn’t offer engineering. There are 3-2 engineering programs with Caltech, Columbia and RPI, but no engineering program at Reed.</p>