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[quote=Anonymous]PP here. I attended Reed, which is why Reed came to mind.  There is no engineering at Reed, although there is a dual program with some other institutions to do 3 years at reed and senior year elsewhere (although I don't know anyone who did that program).  But even though there was no engineering program, I do have friends I went to college with who are in silicon valley.  They studied math with a theoretical computer science bent. Another friend studied math and ended up working as an actuary and then going to business school.  I had another friend from Reed who worked for a hedge fund for a while.  Unless you are dead set on studying engineering rather than math or physics or chemistry, I don't see why going to a liberal arts school would preclude becoming employed in the technology or finance sector.

Other schools that have what you are describing are most of the ivies.  Although people don't talk about it much compared to MIT and Caltech, Brown and Columbia have good engineering programs--it's not all artsy fartsy there. Also, schools like Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Rice--basically just schools that are all around good schools. [/quote]

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