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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Anonymous wrote:
They’re so different. Have you done no research at all?

+1. No reasonably well informed person would be considering both.  [/quote]

This is obnoxious nonsense.   Colgate and Bates are each highly regarded SLACs.   In the Northeast.   While DCUM commenters might think their half-baked "impressions" of the two colleges are that they are two mutually exclusive sets, in real life those gaps are a lot less rigid and unbridgeable than DCUM rhetoric assumes (it's not like comparing West Point and Oberlin).  They have the same majors, the same clubs and activities, have students of essentially similar qualifications.  It's possible that the applicant may see specific things they like in each college (apparently not having received your memo that "no reasonably well informed person would be considering both").   Or maybe has friends who went to each and had a great experience.   Or maybe, as a 17 year old, the applicant isn't as set in their ways as the opinionated commenters on DCUM and thinks "hmmm, there's a part of me that could be a Bates person, but there's also a part of me that could be Colgate person."   This website is to share helpful information - not to deride people's interests or discourage them from pursuing options that might legitimately appeal to them (notwithstanding your disapproval).  Don't make the mistake of thinking or saying you know better -- you don't.         [/quote]

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Colgate is a D1, Greek dominated, hard partying, private school dominated, pre-professional school in the middle of nowhere. Bates is a genuine LAC with a serious core curriculum and a long history of socially progressive policies. Nate’s is outdoorsy and diverse. One would have to be an imbecile to equate the two. You are most likely an imbecile.[/quote]

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