Cornell vs. Reed College

coralqueen
Mon, 12 May 2014 01:28:14 +0000

@coriander23 @rhg3rd I’m actually in endowed Cornell (CAS) so the statutory colleges aren’t an issue - either way, we in New York consider them a blessing from the public university gods. A huge tuition cut at a school that is much, much better than most of the SUNY system is a great thing. And out-of-staters still attend them on purpose.

After reading these replies and hearing directly from some Reed students, I’m thinking my best course of action here is to stick it out at Cornell for four years and hopefully obtain a higher quality of life. I’m having a bit of a career crisis and considering an internal transfer to CoE, something that’s impossible to pursue at Reed.

If money were no object and I could follow my academic goals to the ends of the earth without feeling guilty I would choose Reed in a heartbeat. The school is perfect for me in personality (I’m on the wacky/flaky/lazy/outlier side and 100% okay with it) and academics. However, I’m a seventeen year old who is about to go into quite a bit of debt, and I need to consider the implications of that.