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I'm not going to make time to find you a more specific link, Joe! :-) --[[LMS]] |
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* Golly, saying that it's in a quiet neighborhood doesn't reflect any bias at all. It's a pertinent fact about the place. |
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* If you MUST use a carriage return after every line, don't do it in the middle of a link. It breaks the link! (This is what happened with the [[Middle Ages]] link.) |
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* Right, Reed might not be ''well-known'' for producing a lot of Rhodes Scholars, but unless their PR is just wrong, it produces an unusually high proportion of them. --[[LMS]] |
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Revision as of 20:59, 13 January 2002
This article reads more like a recruitment brochure than an encyclopedia
written with an eye towards neutral-point-of-view.
"nice, quiet", "well-known" and other glowing phrases. I've heard great
things about Reed, true, and know or know of a few alumni, but even so.
As for high-proportions of Ph.D.'s, I believe this is generally true of
small liberal arts colleges.
http://www.lawrence.edu/news/pubs/steitz.shtml
As with all liberal arts colleges, one might question whether they do so
well (assuming that production of Ph.D.s can be defined as "doing well")
because of value-add unique to any college, or because they tend to draw
from a more select pool, academically and economically.
This is all true (the article wasn't NPOV), although Reed does have an unusually high percentage of people who go on to get Ph.D.'s--that is represented as a statistical fact by their literature, anyway. --LMS
From Steitz's article: "small colleges produce about twice as many students
who go on to obtain a Ph.D. in science than do large, distinguished research
universities."
So, is Reed unusual compared with other liberal arts colleges in this
regard, or just compared with other bachelor's granting institutions?
Yes, according to their literature, compared to other liberal arts colleges. Compared to all institutions, actually. Have a look: http://www.reed.edu . --LMS
Thanks, but I'll wait for a more specific link, rather than
dig through more sales pitch. --JoeAnderson
I'm not going to make time to find you a more specific link, Joe! :-) --LMS
Notes on my changes:
- Golly, saying that it's in a quiet neighborhood doesn't reflect any bias at all. It's a pertinent fact about the place.
- If you MUST use a carriage return after every line, don't do it in the middle of a link. It breaks the link! (This is what happened with the Middle Ages link.)
- Right, Reed might not be well-known for producing a lot of Rhodes Scholars, but unless their PR is just wrong, it produces an unusually high proportion of them. --LMS