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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of Reed grads.  Relatively smart, but definitely not brilliant or anything.  All come from wealthy families and were able to go into public interest -type jobs because of that.  The school is pretty, but very small.[/quote]
Steve Jobs went to Reed so there are some unusually smart people who went there.[/quote]

He left after 1 semester[/quote]
Yes to start apple[/quote]

So hard to credit the education had a huge influence on his development.[/quote]

He claims it did, he just didn't think he was working hard enough to ask his parents to pay for it.  He was enrolled for a semester, but stuck around for two years and sat on more esoteric classes, than the core requirements: [url]https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/december2011/steve-jobs-1976.html[/url][/quote]

Ah, interesting. Thanks for sharing.  I do miss those days when students mainly were interested in learning for purposes they couldn't fully map out in a linear way.  It helped our country be inventive.[/quote]

That's kind of what Reed is about.

They don't show grades unless you ask. There's no emphasis on them,  or class rank. It's not a "competitive" school, except by debate. Most classes are conference style discussions of the reading assignments, most exams (that I remember) were open-book analyses of the course material, most classes had averages of about 50-100 pages of reading a night, etc. [/quote]

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