People Considering going to Oberlin & Reed College

MaryKTX
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 03:01:59 +0000

Although it sounds like you are looking for input from fellow perspective students, I can’t resist adding my two cents as a parent who knows something about both institutions. I served on the faculty at Reed from 1991 - 1998, have stayed close to many former students, and have close friends still on the faculty there. Our daughter just commited to the Oberlin Class of 2018. I have visited Oberlin twice as a parent. Both colleges are of the highest quality academically, both have pretty campuses, and I get the strong sense that students at both places get a great deal of attention from the faculty and go on to excel in all ways. Reed is a wonderful place with many intensely intellectual students and an outstanding faculty, but I always felt like it could have been stronger in the arts and offered more outside the classroom. One special feature of Reed is that all students do a senior thesis. Oberlin seems much stronger in music and the arts, and seems to offer the inspiring academics with more going on outside the classroom. I think both are great places. I wish you the best in making your decision.