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[quote=Anonymous]I have visited a bunch of these schools in person. In case it's helpful, I will share some of my impressions, a few at a time:

Reed: campus is beautiful and kind of classic: beautiful buildings, old trees, wide flat lawn where students play frisbee. As other posters have noted, it's academically intense, and very alternative. Students/faculty are old-school intellectual, the curriculum requires deep dives. There’s a touch of Swarthmore in the proud intensity of the workload, combined with the alternative vibes of…I dunno, Wesleyan or Oberlin? But there’s a distinct PNW feel, which takes some of the edge off. The intensity and alt-vibe were both too much for my kid (who's pretty alt!), who didn't apply.

Whitman is amazing. If it were on the east coast, it would feel like a NESCAC (Bowdoin, maybe?). Friendly student body -- a little bit of everything, maybe outdoorsy most of all. Lovely campus, strong quality of life, terrific facilities. You can have everything there…the only catch is you have to go to the moon to get it. Walla Walla, while a real (and great) town, is far from everywhere. First you fly across the whole country, then you drive for many hours, through multiple ecosystems. The isolation is sort of a feature and a bug, both. The feature = everybody on campus very specifically chose that place, and there's something special about that. [/quote]

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