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[quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of parroting of bad info here. Bowdoin has been test optional for over 50 years, it's not some newfound thing. If your application is improved by your test score, send it. If it's not, don't. That's the Bowdoin-specific advice, regardless of who you are.

No, you do not need to be God's gift to some sport / a "development case" / a yet-to-be-cultivated inner-city math genius to get into Bowdoin. It's hard, it's not that hard.

Bowdoin is also need blind for admissions, so your full pay/non-full pay status has no bearing on your admission (with a few minor exceptions involving transfer students and, very occasionally, waitlisted students). The financial aid application literally goes to a different office on campus housed in a different building with different staff.

Finally, Bowdoin is more diverse, at least racially, than Middlebury, with 36% URMs compared to Middlebury's 28% based on the numbers I found at a quick glance (though they may be a year or two out of date). Not a big difference but worth getting the facts right.[/quote]

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