Colorado or Reed

[Anonymous]

DD is currently enrolled at Reed, but has gotten off the colorado waitlist. She’s interested in physics currently but also could see herself in chemistry or even sociology.

She’s worried that at Reed she wont be able to double major, but she loves the people and professors she’s met at Reed so far.

[Anonymous]

Does she want to go to law school?

[Anonymous]

What kind of question. Reed duh! Colorado is a c tier school with a decreasing enrollment and endowment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of question. Reed duh! Colorado is a c tier school with a decreasing enrollment and endowment

Colorado has a larger endowment than Reed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of question. Reed duh! Colorado is a c tier school with a decreasing enrollment and endowment

Colorado has a larger endowment than Reed.

But only one of them has a shrinking endowment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of question. Reed duh! Colorado is a c tier school with a decreasing enrollment and endowment

Colorado has a larger endowment than Reed.

But only one of them has a shrinking endowment.

Citation?

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry, are you talking about CC or UC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, are you talking about CC or UC?

Colorado college, and she's not interested in law school.

[Anonymous]

She can’t double major at Reed? Would she be ok with doing a minor in one of those areas? Which school is more highly ranked? Does she want to go to graduate school?

[Anonymous]

How does she feel about CC's block schedule? That seems like something she'd either love or hate. Reed's jr year comps are also unique -- are they a draw or a negative?

This isn't a decision that should be made based on prestige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She can’t double major at Reed? Would she be ok with doing a minor in one of those areas? Which school is more highly ranked? Does she want to go to graduate school?

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Double majoring at Reed is actually very difficult. The issue isn't just the two senior theses, but you would also need to take a qualifying exam for one of the majors by your second semester sophomore year, which would mean very careful course selection. The college doesn't allow minors AND you would have to take your liberal art requirements during the summer. The physics qualifying exam is particularly gruesome

[Anonymous]

I think students overestimate the importance of being able to double major. If it's easy at the university, sure, do it. If it's more difficult, I don't think it has a negative impact on a student's future opportunities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think students overestimate the importance of being able to double major. If it's easy at the university, sure, do it. If it's more difficult, I don't think it has a negative impact on a student's future opportunities.

I think that's especially true at a liberal arts school where you don't need to declare your major right away. The OP's daughter can spend freshman year exploring and figuring out what she wants to major in -- it might be one of those fields or something completely different.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like reed understands that a depth and breadth in a major matters. That's rare in a climate where we hand out degrees with half-baked outcomes.

[Anonymous]

For physics, Reed represents a go-to school. For a tangible feature of its program, consider its nuclear reactor. However, this isn't intended as a direct comparison to Colorado College's physics program.

As a personal opinion, I'd choose CC for its generally more interesting curriculum, which includes a geosciences program, for example.