General Questions

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<li><p>Is this a good school for sciences and math?</p></li>
<li><p>What is the campus/surrounding town like? Social life related things?</p></li>
<li><p>Do they have an honors college. And if so how hard is it to get into the honors college and what is that like?</p></li>
<li><p>What are good stats to have to have a good chance at getting in?</p></li>
<li><p>Any cool things to know about the school?</p></li>
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<p>I can answer 3 and 4 pretty easily.</p>

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<li><p>Reed in itself is pretty much an honors college. The classes are extremely rigorous, and you end your tenure there by writing a master’s level thesis.</p></li>
<li><p>You can find accepted students’ stats elsewhere on the thread, but what’s really important is your passion for learning and for Reed, as demonstrated in your essays.</p></li>
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<p>I hope this gets you started, but the internet is a wonderful tool by which to do research on questions like these.</p>

<p>1) Apparently grad schools think so
[REED</a> COLLEGE PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]REED”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>

<p>2) In a mostly middle-to-upper-middle class residential neighborhood with a little commercial zoning on the corner. Nice neighborhood restaurants within walk/bike. Public transportation to get to downtown Portland and other areas. I think its fair to say that social life rests much more on small gatherings of friends than large loud parties compared to other schools.
[Things</a> to Do](<a href=“Community - Admission - Reed College”>Community - Admission - Reed College)
[A</a> Morning in the Life of a Reed Freshman](<a href=“Community - Admission - Reed College”>Community - Admission - Reed College)</p>

<p>3) No
[Reed</a> College 202010-11 Common Data Set SecE](<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/ir/cds/cds1011/cdssece201011.html]Reed”>Reed College 202010-11 Common Data Set SecE - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>

<p>Everybody has many small, discussion-focused classes. Everybody does a senior thesis or project. Everybody works very hard. Not much cause for an honors program.</p>

<p>4) [REED</a> COLLEGE ADMISSION STATISTICS](<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/ir/admission.html]REED”>Admission Statistics - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>

<p>SAT combined mean 2083, ACT composite mean 31
63% in top tenth of HS class</p>

<p>…but if you’re simply a stats-oriented student rather than an intellectually driven one this probably isn’t the place for you.</p>

<p>5) [Reed</a> College Canyon](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/canyon/index.html]Reed”>Canyon - Reed College)
[The</a> Trees of Reed College](<a href=“Trees of Reed”>Trees of Reed)
[Reed</a> Research Reactor](<a href=“http://reactor.reed.edu/]Reed”>http://reactor.reed.edu/)
[Reed</a> Dogs](<a href=“This is Reed - Reed College”>This is Reed - Reed College)</p>

<h1>Downtown Portland is about 15 minutes by bus</h1>

<h1>Mt. Hood and Reed’s ski cabin are about 90 minutes away</h1>

<h1>The Pacific coast is about 90 minutes the other way</h1>

<h1>No varsity sports (except for Ultimate)</h1>