Cornell vs. Reed College

lynjobes
Sat, 10 May 2014 03:04:23 +0000

It is definitely considered by many as flaky and wacky. Cornell is an Ivy. That still carries a lot of weight. Many people have never heard of Reed (and fewer would were it not for Steve Jobs). I don’t have a kid at an Ivy, never will, but it still carries weight. Reed is really still a “West Coast” school, and many on the West Coast have reservations about it. A lot of latter-day hippie stuff, transplants from California who are still living in the 60’s and 70’s. We have a ton of students at my kids’ school (and numerous schools in the area) investigating most of the privates in Oregon. Oregon is “the” place for California kids to go now. A few years ago it was Colorado that was so popular.