Skidmore vs Reed

bluehair59
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:49:22 +0000

Okay so I’m really stuck between Skidmore and Reed. I’ve been accepted to both but I’m unsure of where to go so I thought I’d ask the lovely people of college confidential! If you have any thoughts or opinions please please share.

I’m mainly interested in political science but I’m not totally decided on an official major

Reed: So I absolutely love Reed’s location. I also love Reed’s academic environment and the intensity of it. However, I’m worried about the workload and whether I’ll have any time to do anything else but study. While I am good with time management, the workload sounds really overwhelming. Also the huge amount of requirements at Reed doesn’t really appeal to me and I’m worried that it’ll make study abroad hard.

Skidmore: From what I’ve heard (and seen through visiting) is that Skidmore doesn’t have the academic intensity that Reed does however the fact that students study less and therefore have more time to socialize sounds great. My main worry with Skidmore is that the academics just aren’t that of Reed’s. Not to say that they’re not fantastic, but Reed really has an academia focus that I worry Skidmore lacks.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!