"If you're a genuine intellectual, live the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you is ... the most intellectual college in the country—Reed, in Portland, Oregon."
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• Private, independent, coeducational college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1908.
• Beautiful 115-acre campus located in a safe, tree-lined residential neighborhood, 20 minutes from downtown Portland, OR, which was recently described by Outside magazine as one of "The Best Towns in the U.S."
• Self-directed, intellectually curious, creative, passionate students love Reed.
• Nationally known education and career advisor Donald Asher '83 characterizes Reed as "an extremely liberal student body wedded to an extremely conservative curriculum ... liberal in the old sense of free, and conservative in the old sense of guarding a known good."

• The Hidden Ivies guidebook writes, "Reed has remained true to its original mission to provide intelligent, intellectually passionate young men and women with a first-rate education in an atmosphere of free inquiry and reflection ... A premium is placed on the quality of teaching and advising since intellectual dialogue and study is the key point of the Reed experience."
• Reed is skeptical of numerical college rankings and, as a result, does not submit data to U.S. News & World Report for their so-called America's Best Colleges issue.
• One of the nation's top producers of future Ph.D. recipients as a percentage of all graduates; 70% of alumni earn a graduate degree.
• 31 Rhodes Scholars to date.
• While Reed maintains a traditional transcript for students, feedback from professors is qualitative and does not include letter grades.
• Reed is the only college in the country with a research nuclear reactor that is staffed primarily by undergraduates. The Reed reactor has more female reactor operators than all other research reactors combined.

• More than 10% of faculty attended Reed as undergraduates.
• No classes taught by graduate teaching assistants.
• Extensive faculty/student collaborative research opportunities: students research and write a thesis during their senior year.
• Access to faculty members is one-on-one and this teaching method—coupled with small, interactive conference-style classes—demands students' active participation.

• 88 ever-changing student organizations funded by student vote
• Exclusive organizations are not permitted (no fraternities or sororities).
• 7 volunteer-coached athletic teams and a P.E. requirement, but no varsity sports
• Frequent lectures, readings, theatrical performances, and community events.

• In addition to the second-highest number of Rhodes Scholars from a liberal arts college (31) and 139 National Science Foundation Fellowship winners, Reed College also has two Pulitzer-Prize winning alumni: Edward Cony (1961) and Gary Snyder (1975).
• A large percentage of Reed alumni continue their education after leaving Reed: 70% attend graduate, law, or medical schools, and a quarter of Reed graduates continue on to earn a PhD. But Reed is more than just "PhD prep." Thirty-one percent of Reed alumni have found careers in business and industry, creating small tech start-ups, contributing to major corporations, and working in national security advising, policy, law, and management.

• Middle 50% SAT composite scores: 1310 -1460 (Math and Verbal)
• Mean composite ACT score: 31
• Average GPA: 3.9
• 11% of students are in the first generation of their family to attend college.
• 25% of freshmen are from historically underrepresented minority groups.