People Considering going to Oberlin & Reed College

monydad
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:16:06 +0000

While Reed indeed may not be able to match that, can you get to anyplace useful in Portland and back to campus easily, by public transportation? If so, Oberlin can’t match that!

But IMO a healthy campus vitality is more important.

IIRC Reed is really teeny, isn’t it? And Reed has a required humanities course sequence, and a required thesis, doesn’t it? Those features are very un-Oberlin.

People often try to lump these two together, maybe because they both incubate relatively lots of future PhDs, and back in the 50s they were the places people like Pete Seeger could perform. But they seem relatively different to me, in material ways.