My personal statement detailed my journey to overcoming my eating disorder. I have suffered from body dysmorphia since I was about 12. It led me to starving myself and becoming obsessed with "skinny." My personal statement explained this, and my emotional path to realizing how beauty is a social construct and bears no importance when determining self-worth.

One of the prompts was in regards to when I felt I became a woman. I took the opportunity to bash gender norms.

Women possess femininity, bear children, and depend on men. Those statements are all false. Society dictates those traits upon women, but one can most certainly attain womanhood without one, or all, of those characteristics. I do not aspire to any written definition of womanhood; I do not feel the need to become a woman at any point in my life. Women must pursue happiness, rather than a vague ideal of what is expected of us. I will define what will...

I decided to enroll Early Decision before I knew a whole lot about...

I intend to go on to...

My "Why Reed" essay was about how being an open-minded, liberal atheist in close-minded, conservative, Christian South Dakota was...

Portland has an amazing food scene. The city is also very trendy and everyone has their own unique style. Reed is interesting in regards to its drug culture. During O-week, senior "beer fairies" go around handing out cheap beers to freshman--very different from...