About Reed College. Reed College in Portland, OR reports an overall acceptance rate of 24.6%, an early-round acceptance rate of 35.0%, an SAT middle 50% of 1310–1490, a class size of 303, and a yield of 13.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Intensely academic college famous for its required year-long humanities course and mandatory senior thesis. Steve Jobs attended briefly. Produces more future PhDs per capita than all but Caltech and Harvey Mudd.