<p>FWIW, my daughter is a quite capable student and she has found the degree of focus on academics at Oberlin to be perfect, for her.</p>
<p>When she was preparing her college list there were a few schools that were represented to her to have particularly strenuous academics, and this included Reed. I don’t have any basis to say whether or not this is correct.</p>
<p>Based on knowing my daughter and hearing what she’s said about her experience at Oberlin, I find it improbable that “comparing it to other schools, the academics are less than you would find elsewhere”, except where those other schools were themselves outliers.</p>
<p>But this is just my guess, based on above.</p>