(Reed) I wasn't much of a fan of the highly-touted

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Date: May 23 2004
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I wasn't much of a fan of the highly-touted and required Humanities program. The argument of many top-tier schools that we take these courses to better understand the influence (and continued influence) of Ancient Greece / Rome on western civilization seems somewhat circular and, well, racist. I would rather have taken something I didn’t know anything about, like Chinese Humanities. Nonetheless, Reed is the apotheosis of the intellectual college... a hothouse for growing ideas and cultivating the life of the mind. You'll be highly impressed by the caliber of thinkers here, both staff and students. Reed is also the mental equivalent of Rangers or SEALS training... four years of it. As mentioned elsewhere, Reed is a place for grown-ups--people with discipline who are self-motivated. If you do all the required and suggested reading per full semester's course-load, you'll easily be going through 160+ pages a night of extremely dense, abstruse material and then be expected to discuss the material intelligently in conferences the following day. I've had a few friends tell me some of the coursework in their med school programs was not nearly as demanding. I also read somewhere that the attrition rate is pretty high but graduate from Reed and you can do anything, which is not to say that being a Reed grad opens doors-- it doesn’t. Most people outside of grad schools have never heard of Reed. It’s not even all that well known in the city of Portland where the school resides. People come to Reed because they are interested in learning, not because of the prestige of the degree or for sports or frat parties. I’m very proud to have gone there and would choose Reed over 99% of all schools out there.

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