<p>which is better? im curious. i know bates is ranked much higher but why would you pick one or the other?</p>
<p>My son is a junior, and we looked at both these colleges. He liked both of them very much, but is leaning towards Conn College for a number of reasons: Maine is 2 hours further than Connecticut College, although it has mountains and skiing and he is a skier; he liked the colleges with the Honor Code, which Connecticut College has (so does Wheaton, and, I think, Haverford,) he liked the Centers, in which you can pull together different academic areas; Conn College is beautiful, near the river and the Sound, you can smell the salt water; the students seemed very happy and active - when we were there, the students were all over the place, the campus center was busy (a teacher was holding class in there,) we liked the proximity to Boston and NYC, and the teachers he went to meet were wonderful!</p>
<p>So Conn College, along with a few others, are on the top of his list right now. He will apply to Bates if he does not get in to his early decision schools, but he knocked it off the ED list.</p>
<p>take the usnews with a grain of salt. if you look at the data, the stats for the two schools are extremely close.</p>