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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting schools. Bowdoin College has almost 1,800 undergraduates, while Tufts University has about 6,000 undergraduate students and about 5,000 graduate students.

Bowdoin is a really nice school. Bowdoin College is very much like an elite New England prep boarding school--nice campus, solid academics, motivated students, and involved faculty. Bowdoin is small, comfortable, and intimate. Everyone knows everyone else and, seemingly, each other's business. Excellent prep for law school.

Bowdoin's overlap schools are: Brown, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Swarthmore, and Colby. Williams, Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Colby are quite similar to Bowdoin in many respects.

In my view, Tufts University is in a different league than is Bowdoin College; this difference is evident in Tuft's overlap schools: Dartmouth, U Chicago, Brown, Harvard, Wesleyan, Georgetown, Northwestern, & WashUStL.

Academics are excellent at both schools.

Different environments. Bowdoin is located in a small town, while Tufts is more urban with easy access to Boston.

OP: If your student wants the experience of an elite New England prep boarding school and the familiarity and intimacy that such an experience entails, then Bowdoin College is the clear choice; but, if your student wants less isolation and more real world exposure at this stage, then Tufts University is the clear choice.

With respect to preparation for law school, both would be outstanding.[/quote]

I wrote the above post.

OP: I just cannot picture your child at Tufts based on your description of him or her. I have trouble picturing your chils at Dartmouth also as Dartmouth kids tend to be extroverts & socially outgoing personalities.

In addition to Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, Conn College, and Kenyon College should be good fits.[/quote]

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