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<li>How diverse is the school economically? </li>
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<p>60/40 ~ ish.</p>
<p>For a student from a working/middle class family, is the sense that it is comfortable to be there or is it a rich man/poor man type of school?</p>
<p>There is no discomfort, but you may notice some people have lived lavishly for their entire lives and find it commonplace. They won’t hold it against you if you likewise reciprocate.</p>
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<li>With the school being so far from major cities, how do students have access to connections, internships, shadowing, etc.?</li>
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<p>The school tends to be a bubble for all its benefits and detriments. It is nearly self-sustaining, like a eco-pod spaceship on a 4-year mission. Internships and shadowing may occur in the larger cities of Portland and Augusta. But it’s hard, very hard, to leave the bubble.</p>
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<li>How often do students venture, for a day or weekend, to a major city?</li>
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<p>There’s easy access to Portland and Boston, (bus and commuter rail 5 minute walk out of campus) but I think most people stay within the bubble and gestate slowly, growing in power and lethality, until it is time. Sports teams travel frequently all over, as usual.</p>
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<li>How is the alumni networking once out of school in other regions (i.e. not the NE) of the country?</li>
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<p>Sufficient opportunities because of the small-school mentality (I mean that in a good way) and the interconnections that occur between other LACs through alum of prep schools and school ties of family (i.e., your lax Bro goes to Bowdoin, and he knows people from Lawrenceville, his Dad went to U. Michigan, he knows someone from Stanford, blah blah blah.) But you may not need much connectivity because your prowess is so formidable, and your reputation, renown.</p>