Cornell vs. Reed College

Afg2014
Sat, 10 May 2014 17:32:31 +0000

Choose Reed. Any one who compares it to Lewis and Clark is sorely misinformed. Anyone who thinks it is easy has also no connection or experience with the school.

Wacky, yes, but not easy.

It has one of the highest placement rates into top grad schools, highest rates of UGs continuing onto PhDs.

One reason why people on the West Coast had mixed reactions to Reed is that it is SO different than every other schools here. Most other schools in this size range are more similar to each other than they are different. Whitman, Lewis and Clark, Willamette…great schools, but VERY different from Reed.

Reed attracts outlier kids…kids who maybe didn’t fit in high school because they were the quirky-super smart ones in their class, or the ones reading Russian literature or college science textbooks in middle school. And that leads some to spread the rumor that it’s flaky. It’s because Reed students are a little weird. And they like it that way.

But, flaky? Nope. The kids who go in thinking it’ll be a breeze and they can slide by in a freshman level seminar class, leave 2/3 of the way through Humanities 100.