Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:33     Subject: Re:What is Bowdoin known for?
Never heard of it
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:30     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Anonymous wrote:Great school if you want to extend high school. It is an excellent college version of an elite boarding school.


You say that a lot about LACs. Most high schoolers do not attend elite boarding schools, so a LAC is a different experience.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:28     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Felt less nerdy than the WASP schools we visited. That might be a plus or minus depending on your kid.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:26     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
English majors. That’s about it
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:24     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Anonymous wrote:Is the correct pronunciation "Boy-dun"?

Bow-din
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:22     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Is the correct pronunciation "Boy-dun"?
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:21     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
mediocre outcomes
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:20     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Great school if you want to extend high school. It is an excellent college version of an elite boarding school.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:16     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Anonymous wrote:It’s impossible to get in now. Huge endowment has allowed them to boost their first gen/URM numbers. After the athletes, not a lot of spots left.

Wdym? There’s a ton of spots left after first gen and athletes. Sounds like cope.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:15     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
my daughter would love to go here - but its so damm hard to get in!

Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:14     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Top choice school for Tony Soprano's daughter. Tony thought the admissions guy made a lot of sense.


She ended up at Columbia. Georgetown waitlisted her—-Camilla did a shakedown of the AOs lol

lol... Tony conducting "business" at the school visit cracked me up.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 19:14     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
It’s impossible to get in now. Huge endowment has allowed them to boost their first gen/URM numbers. After the athletes, not a lot of spots left.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:27     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Anonymous wrote:Smart, nice, hardworking students and individual attention from professors. Beautiful campus. More outdoorsy than most NESCACs. Less political and artsy than Wesleyan or some of the others.

Id say they attract a crowd more artsy than Wesleyan. Crunchy granola Bowdoin types are really into art, and there’s high demand for the arts courses.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:25     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Smart, nice, hardworking students and individual attention from professors. Beautiful campus. More outdoorsy than most NESCACs. Less political and artsy than Wesleyan or some of the others.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 18:18     Subject: What is Bowdoin known for?
Great food!

Good teachers.