<p>I’m an Exeter student, and I think that at least two kids from my class will be attending Reed next year. I applied but got waitlisted. I think that Reed waitlists a lot of kids who are applying to higher tier schools and are not likely to matriculate at Reed. This may be a common problem for Exonians because they want to have a lot of options for college and will at least try for a lot of harder schools. Also, I loved what I understood of Reed’s academics, but their student life seemed to be vastly different from Exeter’s, i.e. more hippy and less preppy.</p>