As another Reed dropout, I can say with some confidence that we're more numerous (at least relative to the student body size) than those who leave Harvard early. At one point, Reed's graduation rate within six years of matriculation was substantially lower than the four-year rate of most of its peer institutions, though those numbers have come up a lot in the last 5-6 years.
Reed has many of the intellectual trappings of an Ivy, but little of the opportunity to rub elbows with the rich & powerful. Jobs excepted, most of the college's famous alumni found their success in academia and the arts, not the business world.
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For the "searchers" there are other, better schools than those of the Ivy League. I still wish I had gone to one of them.
Less seriously, but maybe relatedly: Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed; Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard.
As another Reed dropout, I can say with some confidence that we're more numerous (at least relative to the student body size) than those who leave Harvard early. At one point, Reed's graduation rate within six years of matriculation was substantially lower than the four-year rate of most of its peer institutions, though those numbers have come up a lot in the last 5-6 years.
Reed has many of the intellectual trappings of an Ivy, but little of the opportunity to rub elbows with the rich & powerful. Jobs excepted, most of the college's famous alumni found their success in academia and the arts, not the business world.