Editing Reed College (section)

===Academic honors===
Reed has produced the second-highest number of [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes scholars]] for any liberal arts college—32—as well as over one hundred [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholars]], over seventy [[Watson Fellow]]s, and three [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur ("Genius") Award]] winners.<ref name="scholars" /><ref name="times">{{cite magazine |title=A Thinking Reed |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date =December 28, 1962 |volume=80 |issue=26 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827962,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120072220/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827962,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2008 |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref>  A very high proportion of Reed graduates go on to earn PhDs, particularly in the natural sciences, history, [[political science]], and philosophy. Reed is ranked third in the percentage of graduates who go on to earn PhDs in all disciplines, after only [[Caltech]] and [[Harvey Mudd College|Harvey Mudd]].<ref name="phds" />  In 1961, ''[[Scientific American]]'' declared that second only to Caltech, "This small college in Oregon has been far and away more productive of future scientists than any other institution in the U.S."<ref name="sascience">{{cite web |url=http://www.reed.edu/news_center/press_releases/2002-2003/489.html |title=NSF Fellowships Go to Reed Senior and Recent Graduates |access-date=December 18, 2007 |year=2002–2003 |work=Press Release |publisher=Reed College}}</ref><ref name="sascience2">{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Chris |date=October 2001 |title=News you can abuse |journal=The University of Chicago Magazine |volume=94 |issue=1 |url= http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0110/features/abuse.html}}</ref>  Reed is ranked first in producing PhDs in [[biology]], second in [[chemistry]] and [[humanities]], third in history, [[foreign language]]s, and [[political science]], fourth in [[science]] and [[mathematics]], fifth in [[physics]] and [[social sciences]], sixth in [[anthropology]], seventh in [[Area studies|area and ethnic studies]] and [[linguistics]], and eighth in [[English literature]] and [[medicine]].<ref name="phds" />

Reed's debating team was awarded the first place sweepstakes trophy for [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] schools at the final tournament of the Northwest Forensics Conference in February 2004.<ref>{{cite web |last1=College |first1=Reed |title=Reed College - Institutional Research {{!}} Distinctions |url=https://www.reed.edu/ir/distinctions.html |website=www.reed.edu |access-date=1 October 2018 |language=en-us}}</ref>

[[Loren Pope]], former education editor for ''[[The New York Times]],'' writes about Reed in ''[[Colleges That Change Lives]],'' saying, "If you're a genuine intellectual, love the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford. It is the most intellectual college in the country — Reed in Portland, Oregon."<ref name="lpope">{{cite book | last = Pope | first = Loren | title = Colleges That Change Lives | publisher = [[Penguin Books]] |date=July 2006 | page = [https://archive.org/details/collegesthatchan00pope_0/page/354 354]  | isbn = 0-14-303736-6| title-link = Colleges That Change Lives }}</ref>