<p>Hi! I’m also posting this on the Bowdoin forum. Hope that’s okay :)</p>
<p>So I was recently admitted to both Bowdoin and Amherst (yay!) but I guess the problem is that I didn’t expect to get into Amherst, so Bowdoin has always been my first choice…
I’m interested in majoring in government, so I was really excited to be going to Bowdoin, where they supposedly have the best undergraduate liberal-arts government program in the world… but then I got into Amherst. Are there any government majors at Amherst that could comment on the quality of the poli-sci program there? I’m sure its fabulous… I just need some reassurance that I’ll be making the right choice by going to Amherst. I just don’t want to become one of those people that goes to the college just because of the name. I’m turning down a lot of other good colleges because the quality of the education is what’s really important to me, not the prestige. If it turns out that Bowdoin has the better program, then I guess I’ll turn down Amherst as well. Is there anything that Amherst has the Bowdoin doesn’t have?
Ahhhh I just don’t know what to do… I’m visiting both of them this week for the accepted students days :)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for any comments!!!</p>