The Reed community is self-directed and guided by the Honor Principle. This dual commitment to independence of thought and mutual trust and respect helps to create an environment in which students feel inspired, challenged, and fulfilled. 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. Experience College Life. Most Popular Places On Campus. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. On Campus Interview.
Faculty and Coach Visits. Overnight Dorm Stays. Types of Transportation Available to Campus. Reed College is in a southeast Portland neighborhood, five miles from the downtown area and 12 miles from Portland International Airport. From the airport you can reach Reed by car, bus, taxi, or airporter van. Cabs can be found at the airport taxi-limousine area. Ask the driver to take I to the Foster Road exit. Travel time is minutes. The shuttle leaves the airport every half-hour.
Travel time varies; plan on an hour and a half. Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses serve Portland. From the station, take a Tri-Met 1, 5, 9, or 40 bus on N. Broadway going south to the transit mall on S. Turn right south. Travel 3. Reed is on the right. Just off the exit, turn right east onto SE Bybee Boulevard. Reed is directly ahead. Travel west on Powell to SE 39th Avenue. Turn left south on 39th Avenue, passing through several major intersections until you reach SE Woodstock Boulevard.
Turn right west on Woodstock. Reed will be on the right hand side. Save School. From The School Reed seeks students who demonstrate a commitment to learning and to the ideals embodied by a rigorous and stimulating liberal arts education. First-year and transfer applications are welcome to apply.
The ideal incoming class is diverse in its range of talents, interests, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and perspectives. Students share a common passion for academic inquiry.
Successful applicants have pursued a rigorous secondary school curriculum that includes honors and advanced courses. Reed recommends that students take four or five core academic courses per year, which typically includes four years of English, at least three years of a foreign or classical language, three to four years of mathematics, three to four years of science, and three to four years of history or social studies.
Because secondary school curricula vary widely in quality and content, Reed sets no fixed requirements in this area. The admission committee sets no? Reed is utilizing a test blind approach and will not require nor use testing results from the SAT or ACT in our admission review for the fall and fall cycles. Reed seeks candidates who demonstrate excellence of character, motivation, intellectual curiosity, individual responsibility, and social consciousness.
The admission committee recognizes the importance of creating a diverse community in which individual differences contribute to the vitality of the campus and enhance learning opportunities for students. Reed recommends a personal interview but an interview is not required.
Early Decision at Reed is binding, which means students who are admitted under Early Decision are expected to matriculate. Early Action applications should arrive at Reed by November The deadline for regular first-year admission applications is January Transfer candidates seeking admission for the spring semester should apply no later than November 1, and for the fall semester, March 1.
The college also retained an epidemiologist, focused resources on the well-being and livelihood of the community, and maintained steady communication with constituents through email and robust web resources.
Due to a great deal of dedication and care from all students, faculty, and staff, Reed is thriving. Applicants: 5, Testing Policies. Other Admission Factors. Selectivity Rating. Admissions selectivity rating. The curriculum is structured to include a yearlong humanities course, multi-discipline course requirements, a junior qualifying exam, and a senior thesis with an oral defense before a faculty committee.
The college maintains a student-to-faculty ratio to help students engage with their professors, and Reed limits class sizes in order to encourage faculty members to mentor and connect with students in individual discussions. Foster — , and his faculty engendered local controversy as outspoken pacifists. Bill brought both an increase in the student body and a more national composition of students.
Reed launched a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program in In , a research reactor was built, providing students and faculty with a neutron source to perform biology, chemistry, and physics research. It is the only research reactor in the world operated primarily by undergraduate students. In the late s, when students and faculty in many liberal arts colleges were raising questions about the limitations and relevance of a prescribed course of study,Reed was one of the few to maintain its core curriculum.
President Paul Bragdon — was largely responsible for bringing Reed into fiscal balance and shoring up its endowment. In the s, facilities were added to the campus, including a major library addition that would house the Douglas F.
Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. In the s, the humanities program was enlarged to include the history of Chinese civilization. In , the Princeton Review declared Reed College to be the best academic experience for undergraduates in America. As Reed began to look ahead to its second century, a unified performing arts center was identified as a priority. Part of the campus master plan for over fifty years, the center was built to provide new opportunities for creative expression and critical analysis.
As such the university does not have any exclusive social clubs, fraternities or varsity athletics — devoting itself primarily to academia. This approach has led to a reputation for academic achievement among Reed students with 50 Fulbright Scholars, 60 Watson Fellows, 2 MacArthur Fellows, and 31 Rhodes Scholars to its name. All freshmen year students take a compulsory humanities course, designed to give science and humanities students alike a grounding in the Classics.
There is also a de-emphasis on grades at the university with a more narrative style of assessment.
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