<p>under 60% graduation.....need i say more</p>
<p>I think it's just more rigorous than it is selective, so it gets a lot of people who don't know how hard it's going to be.</p>
<p>Reed is one of the hardest schools in the nation. A lot of people don't realize what they're getting themselves into.</p>
<p>footballyus2345, I'm going to be blunt; you're an idiot. Since when did graduation rate have anything to do with the quality of a school? While Reed is, as brand182 put it, one of the hardest schools in the nation, it is also one of the best. If you'd invest some time into you imense college research, you'd see that many of the schools Reed graduates choose to attend consist of some of the best the nation has to offer: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UChicago etc. Even though it might take you 6 or 7 years to graduate, the results look quite nice.</p>
<p>actually it's 73% (with the class starting in 1999) and it's gotten a lot more selective, so I imagine the graduation rate will just continue increasing as more and more committed applicants are discovered in the pool.</p>
<p>(source: IPEDS/COOL <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/index.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/index.aspx</a>)</p>
<p>The six-year graduation rate was 75% for the 2000 cohort; retention was 90% for the 2005 cohort.</p>
<p>Call it a guess, but my theory is anyone dubbed "Footballius" is naturally adverse to Reed College, although the "-ius" could imply a deep admiration for the works of Ancient Greece.</p>
<p>i think your wrong. i love football, i have played before, but i am going to apply to reed next year. im very individualistic, and very much a freethinker. just because someone likes a sport doesn't mean they should hate certain schools.</p>
<p>but i have to ask, why would you hate such a great college?</p>