Which colleges don't have difficult competition/grading?

vonlost
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:55:01 +0000

Reed’s six-year grad rate is currently 75%, up from 67% six years ago, due to increasing selectivity (due to increasing popularity). The senior thesis is more at a master’s level than a PhD level, and takes one year. There are grades (no pass/fail) but students must ask to see them, and the culture is not to ask. Papers receive written comments in lieu of grades. Reed is not usually considered relaxed, but students are not at all in competition with each other. The overall academic climate results in grads later earning PhDs at a rate somewhere between one quarter and one third; Reed is number one in the country for biology ([REED COLLEGE PHD PRODUCTIVITY](Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)).