Reed College

Date: Jul 15 2004
Major: Sociology (This Major's Salary over time)
I am currently enrolled in a PhD program, and feel like I could not have been better prepared for graduate school. There is no better place to learn how to rigorously examine ideas and to form new, important ideas of your own. The student body and amazing professors at Reed continuously challenged me to go beyond my comfort zone. I also found that the graduate institutions to which I applied acknowledge and value the intellectual rigor of a Reed education. For instance, upon learning where I had attended undergrad, a professor at the University of Chicago (not a Reed alum) turned to a group of other prospective students who had never heard of Reed and explained that Reed was a special place, "very tough and very good." He was met with polite stares, and he just shook his head, "You don't understand."

Now for the typical words of warning: If you are hoping to jump into a prosperous career right out of undergrad, a Reed diploma won't get you very far in the corporate/professional world.