Is Bowdoin increasing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor is displaying a big flag for their child’s successful admission. So happy for them. Excellent school!

Your neighbor is a pretentious asshole.

Well, at least you are not pretentious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor is displaying a big flag for their child’s successful admission. So happy for them. Excellent school!

A flag announcing your child’s college admissions?? Here I thought the Facebook announcements were horrid. This is actually worse!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just because a school rises in popularity does not mean that it has become a "better" school. Bowdoin has been a good school for a long time and has attracted smart and engaged students. But what has changed is that it has become more popular and is getting more applications and thus is more selective. And, of course, DCUM assumes selectivity makes it a better school. As the Ivies and Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore have become more difficult to get into, more kids have started looking at the other strong SLACs. A family member had a great experience at Bowdoin as a recruited athlete (and fully acknowledges that he would have not gotten in without the athlete hook). We visited at all three Maine SLACs more than once and felt that they are all far more alike than different. DCUM really needs to get over this ranking business.

We are over it. It is the same 5 posters that go on and on and on and on about it.

+ Someone's kid is going to Bowdoin and needs reassurance. Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor is displaying a big flag for their child’s successful admission. So happy for them. Excellent school!

Your neighbor is a pretentious asshole.

Well, at least you are not pretentious.

Well, at least I didn’t hoist a flag announcing my kid’s college admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just because a school rises in popularity does not mean that it has become a "better" school. Bowdoin has been a good school for a long time and has attracted smart and engaged students. But what has changed is that it has become more popular and is getting more applications and thus is more selective. And, of course, DCUM assumes selectivity makes it a better school. As the Ivies and Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore have become more difficult to get into, more kids have started looking at the other strong SLACs. A family member had a great experience at Bowdoin as a recruited athlete (and fully acknowledges that he would have not gotten in without the athlete hook). We visited at all three Maine SLACs more than once and felt that they are all far more alike than different. DCUM really needs to get over this ranking business.

We are over it. It is the same 5 posters that go on and on and on and on about it.

+ Someone's kid is going to Bowdoin and needs reassurance. Yawn.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The top of the NESCAC has long been Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Middlebury, in that order. It’s been that way for several decades. It’s not quite at the same level as the first two but right below them with Middlebury. Hamilton, Colgate, Colby, Swarthmore, Haverford and a few other NE SLACs are up in the same general tier.

spot on. yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The top of the NESCAC has long been Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Middlebury, in that order. It’s been that way for several decades. It’s not quite at the same level as the first two but right below them with Middlebury. Hamilton, Colgate, Colby, Swarthmore, Haverford and a few other NE SLACs are up in the same general tier.

Says who? I’d put Swarthmore and Pomona above Bowdoin and Middlebury (as does USNWR, by the way), and Carleton and Haverford on par with it. This is so subjective … Colgate and Hamilton are a notch down Imo, they have only rocketed to popularity/selectivity in the sense they’d be mentioned in a convo with the others in the past 15 years (before you know it Colby is going to be lumped in with them, when not too long ago they were on even par with Bates).

please... read the question and answer. Swarthmore and Pomona are NOT IN THE NESCAC. Therefore they are not relevant to this poster's question or the responder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This discussion about rankings and who’s a notch above whom is absolutely insane. Anyone making these statements can have absolutely no basis for what s/he is saying and should be completely ignored.

Their sole basis for saying that is a US New ranking. Nothing more. They know jackshit about the subtle or even clear differences between the schools.

[Anonymous]

A generation ago Bowdoin was one of the first/only test-optional competitive colleges, which meant that while it was always of course a superb school, it did accept some applicants whose middling test scores would have kept them from getting admitted to Williams and Amherst - and that in turn meant it didn't have quite the same reputation. But that's ancient history -- it's pretty clear at this point Bowdoin's now regarded as the peer of any SLAC in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The top of the NESCAC has long been Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Middlebury, in that order. It’s been that way for several decades. It’s not quite at the same level as the first two but right below them with Middlebury. Hamilton, Colgate, Colby, Swarthmore, Haverford and a few other NE SLACs are up in the same general tier.

Says who? I’d put Swarthmore and Pomona above Bowdoin and Middlebury (as does USNWR, by the way), and Carleton and Haverford on par with it. This is so subjective … Colgate and Hamilton are a notch down Imo, they have only rocketed to popularity/selectivity in the sense they’d be mentioned in a convo with the others in the past 15 years (before you know it Colby is going to be lumped in with them, when not too long ago they were on even par with Bates).

Colby still is on even par with Bates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This discussion about rankings and who’s a notch above whom is absolutely insane. Anyone making these statements can have absolutely no basis for what s/he is saying and should be completely ignored.

Gotta love the blowhard who says IMO (name a college) is above (name a college) and US News agrees with me!
Um, no. Vicey-Versy, dude.

[Anonymous]

The location makes it a no-go for all the kids I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor is displaying a big flag for their child’s successful admission. So happy for them. Excellent school!

The nicest people I know are Bowdoin graduates. Well done to your neighbors child. I love hearing happy news!

[Anonymous]

It’s a great school.

I assume you hear more about it since getting into other schools is even more difficult so many are going back to SLACs for “prestige”.

Outside of DCUM many have never hear of it. Or Hamilton. Or Colby.


Job recruiters know and they all have strong alumni so the fact that many have no clue these schools even exist is no issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a great school. I am not at all sure it matters if it moved from 6 to 3 or whatever.

Seriously people. Get over these rankings!

You are looking at the best school for your child, not in the eyes of others.

THIS
What matters is the fit for your child.