Personally, @twoinanddone, I found your description of the Reed graduate to be mostly humorous. Subsequent posts that were somewhat critical may have just been a prompt for a clarification of your viewpoint.
In terms of my own impression of Reed graduates, I’d say that the ones who have self-identified on CC are often interestingly literate and generally non-defensive.
I think I understand your position that a LAC model isn’t necessarily more pedagogically sound than a university model, but I was a little thrown off when you wrote that you are related to “(too) many” LAC grads. That seems to bring the discussion backwards again. Perhaps I didn’t understand your meaning …
Lastly, “artsy granola” is not what I think of when I think of LACs. Particular LACs, maybe; LACs in general, no.