Anonymous wrote:Here at Bates now for a sporting event. There is not much to the campus? It seems compact compared to the other NESCACs I’ve been to. And the students seem very liberal by looks at least. Don’t love the town.

NESCAC campuses range in size from 100 acres, at Trinity, to 1350 acres, at Hamilton. The Bates campus falls at the lower end of this range, at 133 acres.

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Anonymous wrote:Weak endowment relative to peers. That means greater risk of poor facilities/maintenance and stagnate growth across everything from faculty talent to student career outcomes. New President trying to make a difference on $. Has specifically targeted endowment. Long road ahead. Compare to Colby and the investments they are making in everything from the arts to new student housing. Different level.

Colby is spending fast and hoping that the money catches up. It's not a bad strategy as a bottom half NESCAC trying to be relevant.

Colby just got a $150 million donation from an anonymous donor. They seem to have some very wealthy benefactors. I liked Bates more but Colby definitely has deeper pockets.

Anonymous wrote:DC turned down a recruiting offer from Bates because it's way too liberal. Very Greta Thunberg and that's not DC's scene.

Your post is complete fiction.

Anonymous wrote:Weak endowment relative to peers. That means greater risk of poor facilities/maintenance and stagnate growth across everything from faculty talent to student career outcomes. New President trying to make a difference on $. Has specifically targeted endowment. Long road ahead. Compare to Colby and the investments they are making in everything from the arts to new student housing. Different level.

Colby is spending fast and hoping that the money catches up. It's not a bad strategy as a bottom half NESCAC trying to be relevant.

Anonymous wrote:Here at Bates now for a sporting event. There is not much to the campus? It seems compact compared to the other NESCACs I’ve been to. And the students seem very liberal by looks at least. Don’t love the town.

WTF does this even mean?

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Anonymous wrote:Very liberal/woke with a plain campus.

How so?

Faculty voted unanimously to pass legislation to postpone the RPPC curricular requirement. The RPPC Committee introduced the first and final reading of legislation proposing a delay in the requirement. The requirement would include 2 courses tagged with the RPPC label, at least one inside a student’s major, in the Bates curriculum. This legislation postpones the RPPC requirement for the incoming class in the fall semester of 2026 (Class of 2030) to the fall semester of 2029 (Class of 2033). The legislation also altered the requirement’s wording to enable better cross-department collaboration in offering relevant courses across subjects.

RRPC-Race, Power, Privilege and Colonialism. You can't avoid this being in your classes even If you major in mathematics or physics.

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Anonymous wrote:Very liberal/woke with a plain campus.

How so?

Faculty voted unanimously to pass legislation to postpone the RPPC curricular requirement. The RPPC Committee introduced the first and final reading of legislation proposing a delay in the requirement. The requirement would include 2 courses tagged with the RPPC label, at least one inside a student’s major, in the Bates curriculum. This legislation postpones the RPPC requirement for the incoming class in the fall semester of 2026 (Class of 2030) to the fall semester of 2029 (Class of 2033). The legislation also altered the requirement’s wording to enable better cross-department collaboration in offering relevant courses across subjects.

Anonymous wrote:Very liberal/woke with a plain campus.

How so?

Don't go!

Very liberal/woke with a plain campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Edgy Liberal… it’s not mainstream if students fixate on whether Bates is suffering from “Performative Male Epidemic” and whether that could lead to gender openness, whatever that means. Not saying it’s a bad place to spend 4 years. But it’s liberal. That might work for a lot of kids. Or not.

https://thebatesstudent.com/27849/forum/bates-college-is-suffering-a-performative-male-epidemic/

You don't have a great ear for satire, do you PP?

Seriously. Even this cranky Gen Xer knows that the “performative male” trope is a bit that has been sweeping college campuses (and cities) for months. Is Bates too liberal for doing the “6-7” thing as well?

Anonymous wrote:Edgy Liberal… it’s not mainstream if students fixate on whether Bates is suffering from “Performative Male Epidemic” and whether that could lead to gender openness, whatever that means. Not saying it’s a bad place to spend 4 years. But it’s liberal. That might work for a lot of kids. Or not.

https://thebatesstudent.com/27849/forum/bates-college-is-suffering-a-performative-male-epidemic/

You don't have a great ear for satire, do you PP?

Edgy Liberal… it’s not mainstream if students fixate on whether Bates is suffering from “Performative Male Epidemic” and whether that could lead to gender openness, whatever that means. Not saying it’s a bad place to spend 4 years. But it’s liberal. That might work for a lot of kids. Or not.

https://thebatesstudent.com/27849/forum/bates-college-is-suffering-a-performative-male-epidemic/

Get ready for the is Master Bates there jokes.

Anonymous wrote:DC turned down a recruiting offer from Bates because it's way too liberal. Very Greta Thunberg and that's not DC's scene.

If you come from MAGA land, perhaps. But compared to other similar schools I think it is relatively moderate. It is not an activist school, kids dress pretty normally, etc. And personally, if the MAGA people are scared away, all the merrier - I am extremely supportive of diversity of opinion, but the people who show up with the very adversarial, Fox News driven mentality are not worth listening to. There are plenty of Republicans out there who actually use their brains, but the Trump worshippers who think he is perfect are not among them.

Lewiston is an old New England industrial town without much going on. But I think this also bonds the kids on campus. So it is even more important that your child feels like they fit in.

As far as the Maine schools go, Bowdoin is the closest to civilization and hardest to get into. Bates is further away but not an awful trip. Colby is most remote (Bates is roughly halfway between Bowdoin and Colby).

This also matters particularly for an athlete because away games from Colby are more of a trek than from Bates or Bowdoin.