What is Bowdoin known for?

[Anonymous]

It's a great school. Many boosters on here try to casually include it when mentioning WASP, but it's a notch below, along with Middlebury and perhaps a few others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a great school. Many boosters on here try to casually include it when mentioning WASP, but it's a notch below, along with Middlebury and perhaps a few others.

It's very hard for me to process that WASP represent superior institutions in any meaningful way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's a great school. Many boosters on here try to casually include it when mentioning WASP, but it's a notch below, along with Middlebury and perhaps a few others.

It's very hard for me to process that WASP represent superior institutions in any meaningful way.

That’s because it’s bunk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's a great school. Many boosters on here try to casually include it when mentioning WASP, but it's a notch below, along with Middlebury and perhaps a few others.

It's very hard for me to process that WASP represent superior institutions in any meaningful way.

Other than academics and outcomes?

[Anonymous]

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Average Bowdoin scores and profile are a notch lower than WASP and definitely upper ivies.

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The data on College Navigator shows test score ranges for Bowdoin, Pomona, Swarthmore, and Williams right on top of each other. It’s Amherst that’s a notch lower (and possibly Pomona, because such a small fraction of students submit test scores). Seems like your info is out of date.

All the lacs have low test score submission rates around 50-60%.

[Anonymous]

Bowdoin is fine. The academic offerings are fine. The campus is fine. The student body is fine; albeit, they are very sweet. It’s not unremarkable, but it’s not remarkable either. Just a nice place to go to college and get a decent education.

DD sat in on a mock upper division statistics class, and she was doing better than the student she sat next to on the in-class assessments! It was the easiest math course she sat in on; haverford has the most fast-paced class, and Williams was very challenging and theoretical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin is fine. The academic offerings are fine. The campus is fine. The student body is fine; albeit, they are very sweet. It’s not unremarkable, but it’s not remarkable either. Just a nice place to go to college and get a decent education.

DD sat in on a mock upper division statistics class, and she was doing better than the student she sat next to on the in-class assessments! It was the easiest math course she sat in on; haverford has the most fast-paced class, and Williams was very challenging and theoretical.

Mock was the wrong term! It was just an upper division stats class haha

[Anonymous]

I went to a large, T25 university that this board fawns over, but if I could go back, Bowdoin or Williams would be my top choice.

[Anonymous]

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❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

[Anonymous]

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❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

Said no one ever.

[Anonymous]

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❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

Said no one ever.

+1, Bowdoin is the highest level of the tier below the WASP schools. There’s no worthwhile opportunity you miss out on choosing a WASP over Bowdoin, but there’s so much you miss out on with choosing Bowdoin over any of the WASP colleges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

Said no one ever.

+1, Bowdoin is the highest level of the tier below the WASP schools. There’s no worthwhile opportunity you miss out on choosing a WASP over Bowdoin, but there’s so much you miss out on with choosing Bowdoin over any of the WASP colleges.

Do tell!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

Said no one ever.

Prior to the addition on social mobility rankings the top schools included Wellesley and Middlebury. Bowdoin lagged both and is once again lagging given Midds rising performance in consulting and IB.

[Anonymous]

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❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

Said no one ever.

+1, Bowdoin is the highest level of the tier below the WASP schools. There’s no worthwhile opportunity you miss out on choosing a WASP over Bowdoin, but there’s so much you miss out on with choosing Bowdoin over any of the WASP colleges.

Do tell!

Indeed, that is some seriously nonsensical shit!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

❖ Williams College
❖ Amherst College
❖ Swarthmore College
❖ Pomona College

They are the top LACs that seem incredibly difficult to get into. Bowdoin isn't part of this group but it is right up there.

Yes, it actually is. Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona. These are the top 5.

Said no one ever.

+1, Bowdoin is the highest level of the tier below the WASP schools. There’s no worthwhile opportunity you miss out on choosing a WASP over Bowdoin, but there’s so much you miss out on with choosing Bowdoin over any of the WASP colleges.

Do tell!

Williams- largest connection to Cambridge/Oxford fellowships in the nation, Art history and math program, best LAC for finance, tutorial program, WEPO

Amherst- consortium, Open curriculum, best pre-law admissions for an lac and overall 2nd in the country

Swarthmore- honors program, best top lac for grad school admissions, best non-specialized lac for engineering

Pomona- Most competitive/Highest Yield LAC, Downing Scholars program, Cambridge Program, best college consortium in the country, the best lac on the west coast, Math program.

Bowdoin- has a cool mascot.