In what way is Reed more rigorous? |
There's a qualifying exam and undergraduate thesis for all students. |
well portland >>> DMV so there’s that |
dropping LSD and reading communist poetry dosent sound too bad to me |
There are other liberal arts colleges that do that but it doesn't mean they are necessarily more rigorous--it depends on how challenging the exams are and the level of expectation for the thesis. W&M students all do capstone projects in their majors. |
Wooster requires this too. Still would choose Wooster over WM on academic rigor. |
W&M has one MacCarthur fellow, she was a Reed undergrad, masters at W&M, Phd Michigan. Now at Chicago. Longshot, but shoot her a line? Anyway, anecdata isn't much use, but I know she came into W&M very well prepared to take full advantage of everything offered. As it happens I met her through another Reedie, after she'd left VA, but before she did her phd and all the rest. Honestly don't remember if she had anything to say comparing the schools, conversation was Reed, Reed, Reed--I've sat through many similar, no complaints, good people all. |
Wow. I’m surprised they don’t have more. I have a kid at Oberlin and they have 12 or 13 (had the Nobel prize in Econ last year as an alum). Which is amazing given their size. But Oberlin draws a certain sort of creative, outside the box kid. |
How so? |
Never heard of Reed. I went to UVA and Yale. |
Reed is a hot mess, students constantly in revolt, hard drug culture, so busy protesting it's getting hard to learn there. Have a very good friend who teaches there now and they say to stay away. Very sad. |
Off topic, but occurred to me when I saw the names. Reed was one of the first schools to refuse to cooperate with USNWR rankings. I think they were right to do so, but they have been harshly punished by USNWR for doing it with a much lower ranking among LACs than they would have had otherwise. This may contribute to some of the issues PP cited. It is regrettable that top schools at the undergraduate level have continued to cooperate. If top schools pulled out, it would could break USNWR's damaging hold on many families and their finances.
William and Mary participates in USNWR, but it is probably bad fit for the way USNWR ranks undergraduate National Universities, which tends to favor private schools and schools with more extensive graduate programs. |
My friend’s child met some very troubled kids there. And drugs are pretty accepted there I think. See past threads on Reed. |
+1 They are both interesting in that they are rigorous, intellectual schools that don't quite align with the USNWR molds. I am a prof that regularly gets W&M grads in my graduate programs; they are among the most prepared and intellectually curious I've found. I have less experience with Reed so I can't compare on that ground. |
Yes to start apple |