<p>‘in just about every measure there is, it still appears to me that Vassar is a step above Reed’</p>
<p><a href=“Doctorates Awarded :: Institutional Effectiveness, Research & Assessment :: Swarthmore College”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/institutional-research/doctorates-awarded</a></p>
<p>What other measures were you talking about?</p>
<p>(Just so you know, I have visited Vassar and absolutely loved it, but I understood early on that there were differences between these schools in terms of what the student body wanted to do after graduating, which is part of the fit equation)</p>