Colby/Bates/Bowdoin/Middlebury

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Anonymous wrote:I recently got into both Colby and Bowdoin. Where should I commit? Colby also chose me as a Pulver Scholar. Only 10 are selected and being a scholar guarantees one internship and one research opportunity. Bowdoin is much more closer to civilization though and more prestigious. Colby has a better campus though.

Obviously Bowdoin..

What tf is Colby? a low ranker LAC. Any LAC out of T15 USNews is useless, and not worth the value

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I would not say useless, thats a pretty harsh statement. But, yeah only Top TEN LACs are worth the value.

Rankings don’t tell the whole story about outcomes so I disagree with this arbitrary top ten LAC cut off. So dumb.

Rankings are there for a reason, and ranking matters. How can you compare a 25th ranked college with any one in top15.

Colby & Bates are comparable, and so are Bowdoin and Middlebury.

No, the rankings between a liberal arts college that is ranked 14 or 15 or even six or, hell, even two compared to a school that is ranked 20 will differ very little in outcomes. Some of the best ones are artificially ranked “lower” because they don’t play the ranking game. It has to do with the individual and *what they want to study* and the specific programs. And how hard they work while at the school.
Schools go up in ranking for having more first generation students or more pell grants, or for having more applicants as years increase and then of course having a smaller admit rate—those things have nothing to do with the education received. Also many of the schools are essentially equal… Those are just a couple examples.

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Rankings are there for a reason… yes to make those who publish them money.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently got into both Colby and Bowdoin. Where should I commit? Colby also chose me as a Pulver Scholar. Only 10 are selected and being a scholar guarantees one internship and one research opportunity. Bowdoin is much more closer to civilization though and more prestigious. Colby has a better campus though.

Obviously Bowdoin..

What tf is Colby? a low ranker LAC. Any LAC out of T15 USNews is useless, and not worth the value

+1

I would not say useless, thats a pretty harsh statement. But, yeah only Top TEN LACs are worth the value.

Rankings don’t tell the whole story about outcomes so I disagree with this arbitrary top ten LAC cut off. So dumb.

Rankings are there for a reason, and ranking matters. How can you compare a 25th ranked college with any one in top15.

Colby & Bates are comparable, and so are Bowdoin and Middlebury.

No, the rankings between a liberal arts college that is ranked 14 or 15 or even six or, hell, even two compared to a school that is ranked 20 will differ very little in outcomes. Some of the best ones are artificially ranked “lower” because they don’t play the ranking game. It has to do with the individual and *what they want to study* and the specific programs. And how hard they work while at the school.
Schools go up in ranking for having more first generation students or more pell grants, or for having more applicants as years increase and then of course having a smaller admit rate—those things have nothing to do with the education received. Also many of the schools are essentially equal… Those are just a couple examples.

So, according to you Skidmore is better than Davidson. Cool!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently got into both Colby and Bowdoin. Where should I commit? Colby also chose me as a Pulver Scholar. Only 10 are selected and being a scholar guarantees one internship and one research opportunity. Bowdoin is much more closer to civilization though and more prestigious. Colby has a better campus though.

Obviously Bowdoin..

What tf is Colby? a low ranker LAC. Any LAC out of T15 USNews is useless, and not worth the value

+1

I would not say useless, thats a pretty harsh statement. But, yeah only Top TEN LACs are worth the value.

Rankings don’t tell the whole story about outcomes so I disagree with this arbitrary top ten LAC cut off. So dumb.

Rankings are there for a reason, and ranking matters. How can you compare a 25th ranked college with any one in top15.

Colby & Bates are comparable, and so are Bowdoin and Middlebury.

No, the rankings between a liberal arts college that is ranked 14 or 15 or even six or, hell, even two compared to a school that is ranked 20 will differ very little in outcomes. Some of the best ones are artificially ranked “lower” because they don’t play the ranking game. It has to do with the individual and *what they want to study* and the specific programs. And how hard they work while at the school.
Schools go up in ranking for having more first generation students or more pell grants, or for having more applicants as years increase and then of course having a smaller admit rate—those things have nothing to do with the education received. Also many of the schools are essentially equal… Those are just a couple examples.

So, according to you Skidmore is better than Davidson. Cool!

I think that if you wanted to pursue music or the arts, Skidmore would be a much better fit than Davidson. Not sure if you understood the PP’s point.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently got into both Colby and Bowdoin. Where should I commit? Colby also chose me as a Pulver Scholar. Only 10 are selected and being a scholar guarantees one internship and one research opportunity. Bowdoin is much more closer to civilization though and more prestigious. Colby has a better campus though.

Being selected as a Pulver scholar is a big accomplishment! Congrats!

I should think that this program would offer you great opportunities for research and to work closely with Colby professors. Not to say you couldn’t do the same at Bowdoin, but you may have to be more proactive about it.

Both are great schools. While Bowdoin has more of an established academic reputation, Colby seems to be up and coming. Colby’s investments on campus in the arts and in athletics are impressive. I personally think Colby’s campus is more idyllic albeit more remote.

Most kids at Colby double major and it has a very strong economics department.

I hope this helps. Good luck!