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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]

I agree with this, although I think the reality is that the campus cultures are quite different. But, it would be hard for the typical 17 year old to discern tbat from campus tours, checking out the colleges’ websites, reading fiske guide etc. I toured both with my DC and they remain interested in both colleges and did not pick up on either Colgate’s “partying finance bro” atmosphere nor Bates’ “crunchy druggie” atmosphere from the tours, why would they! The tour guides from each college were remarkably similar seeming young women - outgoing student athletes from northeastern states themselves. So I believe many 17 year olds could be considering both colleges as “on paper” there are many similarities (let’s be real, even the difference of a 3k vs 2k student body is meaningless in the abstract to a 17 yr old.)  But, having had friends at both colleges and having attended another nescac myself, I do believe the stereotypes being batted around on here regarding campus cultures have some truth to them. [/quote]

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