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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nieces both went to Colby.  One ended up spending three semesters abroad.  The other transferred to Cornell.  The Cornell kid said it was too much like her snobby/preppy NE private school.  Very cookie cutter people.  The other kid said it was hard to get kids interested in doing anything adventurous, other than skiing.[/quote]

You might want to check the accuracy of your info. Might one of the semesters abroad have been a Jan plan experience (the month of January while most other colleges are on vacation)? If one of your nieces ended up at Cornell I can understand that she wouldn't like Colby. My daughter, a Colby student, was turned off by Cornell - too big and too STEM oriented.

My daughter loves Colby; she doesn't ski. She loves her professors/classes, has a campus job, volunteers in the community (as do most Colby students) and insisted on doing a semester abroad at a school none of her friends would be attending. I do agree that Colby is preppier than, say, Wesleyan or Vassar but not preppier than the other Nescac schools. The 2013 Academy Award for a documentary film went to a Colby graduate. Colby also has a commitment to first generation college students that is admirable.

That said, I think Bates is a great school too.[/quote]

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