Tell me about the Maine private schools

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Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

Define "near"...We lived in Augusta (20 minutes to Colby) and the loaf is about 90 minutes away.

Bates practices at Lost Valley, a great little ski area about 15 minutes from campus. Bowdoin is about 90 minutes to Sunday River, Colby is 90 to Sugarloaf/Saddleback. Real skiers would of course go to Middlebury but all the Maine schools are close enough. Facilities wise Colby just finished huge athletic upgrades and has by far the best current athletic facilities. Bowdoin is about to start construction on theirs, their campus overall is the best. Bates is quirky. All are among the most selective of the NESCACs just below Williams/Midd/Amherst

Middlebury is much easier to get into than Bowdoin.

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Is Lewiston like Lancaster PA?

Winchester VA?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

Define "near"...We lived in Augusta (20 minutes to Colby) and the loaf is about 90 minutes away.

Bates practices at Lost Valley, a great little ski area about 15 minutes from campus. Bowdoin is about 90 minutes to Sunday River, Colby is 90 to Sugarloaf/Saddleback. Real skiers would of course go to Middlebury but all the Maine schools are close enough. Facilities wise Colby just finished huge athletic upgrades and has by far the best current athletic facilities. Bowdoin is about to start construction on theirs, their campus overall is the best. Bates is quirky. All are among the most selective of the NESCACs just below Williams/Midd/Amherst

Middlebury is much easier to get into than Bowdoin.

Midd takes up to 80% of its class ED now, which translates to about a 40% acceptance rate. Bowdoin's ED acceptance rate last year dropped to 17%, and that includes recruited athletes. If talking about ED, Midd is a far easier admit. The RD admit rates are closer, but Bowdoin's drops every year: 7% last year vs. Midd 12%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

Define "near"...We lived in Augusta (20 minutes to Colby) and the loaf is about 90 minutes away.

Bates practices at Lost Valley, a great little ski area about 15 minutes from campus. Bowdoin is about 90 minutes to Sunday River, Colby is 90 to Sugarloaf/Saddleback. Real skiers would of course go to Middlebury but all the Maine schools are close enough. Facilities wise Colby just finished huge athletic upgrades and has by far the best current athletic facilities. Bowdoin is about to start construction on theirs, their campus overall is the best. Bates is quirky. All are among the most selective of the NESCACs just below Williams/Midd/Amherst

Middlebury is much easier to get into than Bowdoin.

Midd takes up to 80% of its class ED now, which translates to about a 40% acceptance rate. Bowdoin's ED acceptance rate last year dropped to 17%, and that includes recruited athletes. If talking about ED, Midd is a far easier admit. The RD admit rates are closer, but Bowdoin's drops every year: 7% last year vs. Midd 12%.

They take a decent amount rd due to their low yield however! I also respect that they want a school that’s filled with peers that want to attend middlebury. It must make for an amazing campus community where at other schools, especially lacs, it may be students 2nd, 3rd, or even last choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

Define "near"...We lived in Augusta (20 minutes to Colby) and the loaf is about 90 minutes away.

Bates practices at Lost Valley, a great little ski area about 15 minutes from campus. Bowdoin is about 90 minutes to Sunday River, Colby is 90 to Sugarloaf/Saddleback. Real skiers would of course go to Middlebury but all the Maine schools are close enough. Facilities wise Colby just finished huge athletic upgrades and has by far the best current athletic facilities. Bowdoin is about to start construction on theirs, their campus overall is the best. Bates is quirky. All are among the most selective of the NESCACs just below Williams/Midd/Amherst

Middlebury is much easier to get into than Bowdoin.

Midd takes up to 80% of its class ED now, which translates to about a 40% acceptance rate. Bowdoin's ED acceptance rate last year dropped to 17%, and that includes recruited athletes. If talking about ED, Midd is a far easier admit. The RD admit rates are closer, but Bowdoin's drops every year: 7% last year vs. Midd 12%.

Bowdoin’s acceptance rate is lower because it’s a much smaller school and they draw roughly the same number of applicants. Colby has a very low acceptance rate because they’ve driven up application numbers by making it free to apply. When you look at the stats of incoming students, they’re very similar, with Bowdoin having a slight edge in recent years.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure.

Weighted GPA 4.2, might be good enough in sport to play D3 but if not would want to play club sport. Not quite sure what he wants to study, perhaps political science, business, or something in health. Progressive white, UMC male who is kind and friendly. Very social but not a huge partier. Looking for community and great groups of friends. I think he would be happy at a lot of different schools so just trying to put some small D3 schools on our list of potential visits.

Health? Business? Why is he considering liberal arts colleges at all? Those are not liberal arts subjects and will not be well represented.

I went to a liberal arts school and we had both a PT/OT program and a business major. He's a sophomore, has not really figured everything out yet.

At none of these liberal arts colleges are these programs offered. Those just aren’t liberal arts subjects.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Is Lewiston like Lancaster PA?

Winchester VA?

More like Lowell, MA or a smaller version of Worcester, MA

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DC ended up at Pomona but really liked Bowdoin. It seems to have a reputation for happy, balanced students and academic rigor. It offers lots of money and opportunities, really great food, nice dorms, and a cute campus. DC's classmate is at Bowdoin through Questbridge and seems to be enjoying it a lot (as reported to me from DC who is back at home). I personally think Bowdoin is right there with WASP and bet a lot of people pick it over WASP schools or better known universities.

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Colby keeps spamming my kid advertising no application fee and no supplemental essays.

Are they hurting for applicants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

Define "near"...We lived in Augusta (20 minutes to Colby) and the loaf is about 90 minutes away.

Um, near enough that a Colby student could ski there five days a week?

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Anonymous wrote:Colby keeps spamming my kid advertising no application fee and no supplemental essays.

Are they hurting for applicants?

Yes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

“Near” is relative. It’s an hour +. However, Sugarloaf is Colby’s home mountain & the team trains there.

Bates is about 1.25 hrs to Sunday River & just under 2 hrs to sugarloaf.

Bowdoin is 1hr 45 min to SR & 2 hrs to SL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there skiing near any of them?

Colby is near Sugarloaf. Tour guide said he skied there five days a week in the winter.

Define "near"...We lived in Augusta (20 minutes to Colby) and the loaf is about 90 minutes away.

Bates practices at Lost Valley, a great little ski area about 15 minutes from campus. Bowdoin is about 90 minutes to Sunday River, Colby is 90 to Sugarloaf/Saddleback. Real skiers would of course go to Middlebury but all the Maine schools are close enough. Facilities wise Colby just finished huge athletic upgrades and has by far the best current athletic facilities. Bowdoin is about to start construction on theirs, their campus overall is the best. Bates is quirky. All are among the most selective of the NESCACs just below Williams/Midd/Amherst

What do you mean by “real skiers”? Sure, proximity to the snow bowl is good; but Sugarloaf has hosted a World Cup race and the US Nationals many times. Lots of real skiers would chose to ski there instead. YMMV

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Anonymous wrote:Colby keeps spamming my kid advertising no application fee and no supplemental essays.

Are they hurting for applicants?

They’re just driving up applications for the sake of rankings. DC is being spammed just as much from Bowdoin, Williams, and Swarthmore.

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Anonymous wrote:DC ended up at Pomona but really liked Bowdoin. It seems to have a reputation for happy, balanced students and academic rigor. It offers lots of money and opportunities, really great food, nice dorms, and a cute campus. DC's classmate is at Bowdoin through Questbridge and seems to be enjoying it a lot (as reported to me from DC who is back at home). I personally think Bowdoin is right there with WASP and bet a lot of people pick it over WASP schools or better known universities.

Agree. Bowdoin is very hot right now. Kids know the academics are on par with other slacs and want the good good and dorms. We loved it after visiting (but ultimately decided it was a little too far).