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What you describe as the support structure in Bowdoin also happens in other schools.

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Yes, I think it probably does happen at other liberal arts school. I'm just saying Bowdoin is particularly strong in this and it was something I had not experienced at any of the other schools in our family. (My other kids attended private universities and me and my husband attended state flagships.)

As far as diversity, I'm the poster whose kid attended Bowdoin and my kid was a URM. I think the biggest shift is Maine vs the D.C. area. Yes, the school actively seeks more diversity but frankly, the state is very white and not what D.C. area kids are used to. If we had to cross off every school that didn't have the diversity we wanted and every state that was less diverse than D.C., our list would have been quite small. But all that said, these are Bowdoin's numbers:

by race/ethnicity
      American Indian or Alaskan Native:	0.3%
      Asian:	9.3%
      Black or African American:	7.7%
      Hispanic/Latino:	10.6%
      Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander:	0.1%
      White:	56.2%
      Two or more races:	8.1%
      Race/ethnicity unknown:	0.5%
      Non-resident alien:	7.2%
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