<p>bball is just a ****ed ex-Cornell student who couldn't handle the "embarrasing" SAT ranges of the school. </p>
<p>After all, he did say he wanted to transfer early in the year for this very reason (and by golly he did!!).</p>
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<p>What would you say? Beyond embarrassing?</p>
<p>Because it is.</p>
<p>There are like 10-15 schools with a higher score range in the World...lol</p>
<p>What is BBall's next stop on the prestige superhighway?</p>
<p>Overrated-Penn, WashU,Emory -Underrated-Bucknell, Holy Cross, Georgetown.</p>
<p>i agree that reed is way too overrated too..I mean it might be ok in some aspect but being a college with damn alot of student doing drug and all is quite disturbing</p>
<p>I hardly think smoking a few joints a week makes anyone academically less competetive (unless you should have been studying instead of stoning, and if the "few a week" turns into "few a day").</p>
<p>I wonder if they call pot "reed" as a joke.</p>
<p>Reed students themselves thought the pot norm was once a week, but it was actually once a month: 66% percent of students partook once a month or less, including 27% who never did.</p>
<p>Reed does not appear to be overrated by applicants; the admittace rate for 2005-06 freshmen was 45%, with a yield of 29%, despite the fact that academics are of high enough quality to support about 25% of graduates later earning PhDs, currently third highest in the country, behind Cal Tech and Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Compare that to Stanford's admittance rate of 12% and yield of 67%, or Princeton's admittance rate of 11% and yield of 68%, neither in the top 10 of future PhD production percentage for the past 35 years.</p>
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Reed does not appear to be overrated by applicants; the admittace rate for 2005-06 freshmen was 45%, with a yield of 29%, despite the fact that academics are of high enough quality to support about 25% of graduates later earning PhDs, currently third highest in the country, behind Cal Tech and Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Compare that to Stanford's admittance rate of 12% and yield of 67%, or Princeton's admittance rate of 11% and yield of 68%, neither in the top 10 of future PhD production percentage for the past 35 years.
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<p>Not to be picky, or to suggest at all that Reed's not a good school, but it's too little to draw conclusions from those numbers.</p>
<p>For example, how many of Stanford's and Princeton's students later graduate from medical school, law school, MBA business school, etc., vs. Reed. Those students would not be counted as having obtained PhD's but would certainly have acquired their preferred terminal degree.</p>
<p>A better comparative analysis would compare number of graduates who obtain PhD's that have degrees in fields that terminate with a PhD, or compare number of graduates who obtain a terminal postgraduate degree, for example.</p>
<p>A "stoner" could not last a week at reed. Most unimpaired minds would find the workload barely manageable let alone those which are compromised by substances.</p>
<p>You're saying weed "compromises" minds? Why is it that 95% of the people who talk about drugs know absolutely nothing about them?</p>
<p>haha, I love people who don't know anything about drugs</p>
<p>Smoking a joint is slightly better than a rare steak healthwise, and about 1/5 the price</p>
<p>Anyways, why is producing PhDs an important category? Does it show what programs they enter? How strong those programs are? I guess it is important...but many schools with smaller proportions of PhD students probably have more students at top doctoral programs than Reed.</p>
<p>Consider this: In the last couple of decades reedies have one about 30 rhodes scholarships (Williams is the only LAC which has won more), a ton of fulbrights, and a couple of macarthurs (genius grants). That is exceptional for most universities let alone a LAC of 1300 students. The beauty part is that up until 5 years ago the admissions rates was as high as 70% some years. This is why US news methodology is just not fair.</p>
<p>Overrated: NYU, Wash U, Emory, Notre Dame, GWU</p>
<p>Underrated: Williams, Tufts, Cornell, Case Western</p>
<p>I co-sign Case being underrated.</p>
<p>i second reed's being overrated. it's in oregon.</p>
<p>I think Cornell's overrated</p>
<p>so is vanderbilt.</p>
<p>School X is overrated because I say so.
School Y is underrated because I want to attend it.</p>