<p>Both are wonderful choices. If location is not of concern to the OP (is it??) consider that if the OP plans to stay on one coast or the other, the familiarity with the school name can be a helpful variable in job placement. Vassar has, IMO, a stronger name recognition than Reed, especially in the east. Vassar is plenty rigorous academically and does well placing students in med/law/grad school. Also, at Vassar you can create your own major, so if you don’t feel the environmental studies major is exactly what you are looking for, you can create your own, pulling in more courses from the biological sciences, etc. </p>
<p>BTW, OP, take a look at this <a href=“News - Info - Vassar College”>News - Info - Vassar College;
Here’s an example of where a Vassar education can get you in your field. He was a classmate of mine (I think I aged more gracefully, LOL). I was also pretty sure that VC had an environmental science major (or course sequence within the Envt Studies program), but perhaps they changed it, as the coursework I found in on line is from an old catalog Vassar College: Environmental Science Courses</p>