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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you like Reed and Lewis and Clark?[/quote]

Reed and Lewis and Clark are great options but there are quite a few very good schools in the PNW, especially if you are not caught up in the whole "hunt for prestige" nonsense.

Whitman is a great school modeled after the NE SLACs. Solid endowment, good teaching and a great campus backed by a string endowment. Willamette University is another PNW SLAC where you will get a great undergraduate experience as is University of Puget Sound. Whitman, Puget Sound, Willamette, and Reed are all among the CTCL schools and are effectively "unsung heroes" in undergraduate education.

Gonzaga is a great example of the Jesuit schools. University of Seattle is also a nice Jesuit school and University of Portland is a Holy Cross affiliated catholic school. You will get a great education at any of them.

UW is a super well known as a top public university, Oregon is strong, and both Washington State and Oregon State are fine schools for typical kids.
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Whitman only has 700mil and could be going under soon. Very easy to get into and less students applying[/quote]

Are you daft?

You are correct that Whitman does have an endowment of about $700M and that is the only part of your comment that isn't just ridiculous.

Whitman's endowment per student is higher than schools such as Columbia, Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Denison, CMU, Boston U, should I go on? They are a very wealthy school with almost zero debt and a high investment grade bond rating similar to the Ivy League or NESCAC schools.

They had an acceptance rate of 38% and a 1200 student waitlist that they only took 12 kids from. That is pretty healthy demand. They are thriving and they deserve much more attention than they receive.[/quote]

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