@twoinone, I get that she was annoying, your conclusion that you were glad you had gone to a flagship rather than an LAC based upon one hyper-talkative student who happened to have attended Reed seems like a leap not primarily based in logic or data. Enough holes in that conclusion that you could drive a tank through it. I’d hate to be as law student arguing that in front of a professor.Was Reed the cause of her behavior?. That is, do all Reedies (Reeds?) behave that way? Or was it selection bias? Did Reed attract/admit folks with a social tin ear who don’t realize they are talking too much?. Or are you arguing that some combination of nurture and nature leads Reed students generally to behave that way?
Or perhaps it was idiosyncratic? One kid who while bright and hard-working didn’t get social cues who could also have gone somewhere else?. There are some pretty pompous and overly talkative kids from Yale.