Columbia (GS) or Reed College? Help me choose!

You really can’t top Reed for your career interests, and I’d think within academia in general there’d be significant prestige associated with a Reed diploma, so it’s possible that Reed might represent the more prestigious of your choices as well.

Nonetheless, if you’d be inclined to choose Columbia GS in a heartbeat under reasonably promising expectations, then I think Columbia’s overall education and reputation could set you on course to where you would like to go also.