Anyone with experience having kids at Reed College?

Anonymous wrote:I am a liberal college professor and have some very talented colleagues who attended Reed. I would never consider it for my own kids at this point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/professors-like-me-cant-stay-silent-about-this-extremist-moment-on-campuses/2017/10/27/fd7aded2-b9b0-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

+1. too green, too counterculture, too left, too woke. future employability is a factor

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06/05/2024 17:47

Subject: Anyone with experience having kids at Reed College?

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Anonymous wrote:Know someone who went there had a great experience and now is working for some hedge fund, so it’s not all a black hole of drugs

I did drugs with a few people there who now work at hedge funds, or are comfortably retired from hedge funds.

I think it's a fantastic academic experience, and I attended in the 90s, so my own experience isnt relevant, but Reed as enough of an alumni whisper network that when Dr. Valdiva wrote that Post article linked above, we all talked about it. It's interesting that one of the two RAR supporters has completely recanted all that humanities rejection. Not sure about the other one.

I think, although I dont know, that Reed students in general may be walking back a lot of their super super red guard leftism. It's a different time than 2017, and I think some of that crusader zeal may have burned itself out.

I would be more concerned with the lack of middle class students than the drug culture: the observation that everyone attending is either full pay or poor strikes me as accurate. Also, although they"ve made great strides improving diversity since my day, it is still a very white school in a very white town, and also a place where everyone may be trying a little too hard to show off their own oppression score.

For academics types who just want to learn, I do love it, especially for sciences.