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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reed is the most underrated (and intentionally so).[/quote]

Sigh....Why is Reed 80,000 a year with no merit aid? Super sad to take it off the list. [/quote]

Because they do what most good SLAC, ivies & other good schools do and funnel money to financial aid. It’s tough for families that don’t qualify for aid but can’t afford the typical tuition for good schools. [/quote]

As a result the school consists of rich kids and poor kids - so much for diversity [/quote]

This is an issue at all the "competitive" schools.

I went to Reed and have had some contact with current students, the drug and mental health stuff is there, although a lot of people go through four years without ever being affected. I would not send a kid with any existing issues there.

But the massive class gap is the real problem at all of those schools. It causes a lot of performative shuffling, as students try and figure out how they too are also oppressed, or how they top can fit in with peers who have summer houses and ski. It's not healthy in our culture to have this massive wealth disparity, and it's not healthy in a college.

I was kind of glad when our kid didn't have the stats for those schools. They ended up going to a CTCL, one with much less toxic socioeconomic differences. [/quote]

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