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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swathmore kids are known for being super intense. Like enjoying studying and Friday’s in the library types. Studying a lot and enjoy it. 
Bowdoin is the “new” Williams - viewed as the “best” SLAC for the privileged. Kids are generally well rounded and sheltered but have some fun. Not as intensely self pressures as Swat. Williams is pretty much like that too. 
Wes is a little bigger and many more quirky students. More are into science than many of the other high tier SLACs. [/quote]

No one thinks Bowdoin is the best lac. Williams and amherst win out cross admits almost every time[/quote]

And the ivies win out on cross admits for Amherst/ Williams but lots of people want a slac.

My kid attended Bowdoin. They didn't apply to Williams because they felt it was too secluded. They didn't like Amherst when we visited because the students seemed too closed off and snobby. To be fair, that doesn't even mean the students are like this at all. It means that that was the impression we got from a several hour tour with a particular tour guide on a Spring day several years ago. So what? Amherst is a great school and so is Williams and so is Bowdoin. I don't understand why people feel they have to criticize the other schools.

In full disclosure, my kid got into a whole lot of wonderful slacs and, in the end, chose between Bowdoin and Wesleyan.  They would have been happy at any one of about six slacs where they were accepted. They were not sheltered, privileged or white. My kid is an underrepresented minority from a public school and, while I am college-educated, I didn't earn that much and my kid qualified for lots of financial aid.  I could see my kid being happy and doing well at any one of those schools. And, for anyone who thinks this is a humble brag, my other kids applied to slacs - as did I back in the day - and didn't get into any of them.

OP, I suggest you visit and I wish your kid lots of success. [/quote]

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