<p><a href=“A tricky choice... Reed or Grinnell? - #16 by juillet - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1596047-a-tricky-choice-reed-or-grinnell-p2.html</a></p>
<p>Is your friend going to a ‘prestigious’ graduate program soon, Ghostt?</p>
<p>Anyway, do you need financial aid, OP? Grinnell may be more generous to middle-class students, but try the NPCs first.</p>
<p>Neither Grinnell nor Reed is known for its IR/IS/GS programs (at Reed, the ‘ICPS’ program is basically an appendage to a traditional major like economics or political science; it isn’t anything you couldn’t pursue on your own by crafting a schedule based on your interests - <a href=“http://www.reed.edu/registrar/new_planners/icps_econ_new.pdf”>http://www.reed.edu/registrar/new_planners/icps_econ_new.pdf</a> , and only two or three complete the program every year). Amongst LACs, the stand-out school for IR is Macalester (Tufts, though not an LAC, has a distinguished program as well), although I’ve heard great things about the programs at Williams and Vassar (I know people who study at each school, and they had significant opportunities to travel to South Africa and Cuba and other places to explore their interests), as well. I don’t know if this matters to you, but Mac has a LOT of international students (perhaps second only to Mount Holyoke?)</p>