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[quote=Anonymous]Colby Grad here and I will be the dissenting voice: don't go. I had a miserable time there and regularly recommend others don't go. So as not to sound the Debbie Downer here are the pros and cons as I see them:
Pros:
-Academics are top notch. I had friends that went Ivy and I never felt that their education was any better than mine\
-It is great if you love skiing/snowboarding. Winters last from Nov-April and Sugarloaf and Sunday River (2 of the best mountains in the Northeast)
-You can study abroad at some great places through programs that they have (Oxford, LSE)
-There are some really smart people that go here. Also so VERY rich people

Cons:
-If you can get in here, you probably have similar choices academically
-Waterville has nothing around at it all. It is at least 30 minutes from anything else so you better love being on campus
-Waterville may be "reviving" but it is still a dying milltown and the locals hate you.
-The place is SMALL! Everything that your DD does wrong socially will be brought up for the remainder of their time there. It's all the hell of a small town high school
-The school splits socially along if you went to a New England Prep School or not.
-There was very little school spirit. Sports/extra curriculars are not a thing that people care about up there, the most popular sport is ice hockey.
-There is almost no diversity. Most of the people are from Boston suburbs/New York
-Others may have other experiences but my experience of the alumni network has been dismal. I have reached out to them before and they have never once been helpful to me. The job placement numbers look good because a lot of the kids that go there are already from wealthy/connected families so they use that network and Colby is a "good enough" name to get you a look.

In short, while the academics are as advertised, there are way better college experiences to be had. I personally regret my choice to go there and if I could do it all over again, I would have gone somewhere else. If you have the academic numbers to get into Colby, you probably got in somewhere similarly (but a little lower ranked) with a better alumni network and better location.[/quote]

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