<p>I narrowed my choices down to Bowdoin, Brandeis, Bryn mawr, and Barnard but I cant seem to choose. Can you guys please give feed back on which one you would recommend.</p>
<p>Well of course people are going to recommend Bowdoin on the Bowdoin boards!!</p>
<p>What are you interested in studying?</p>
<p>I am interested in being a lawyer someday. I want to double major in a science and a social science.</p>
<p>Hey thats what I want to do
I think i want to double major is Bio and Gov or at least minor in one. Cept I want to go to Med school. If you are wanting to do anything to do with gov or econ i would say that Bowdoin is the strongest of the schools you mentioned.</p>
<p>Hey Lollipop,
I’m a Junior at Brandeis. With the list of colleges you are considering, you need to figure out if you want an urban school (Barnard) or a more suburban compact campus like Brandeis. Plus you need to consider whether you want a more single-sex environment like Bryn Mawr or Barnard or co-ed like Brandeis. Also, since you are interested in both science and politics, you might want to consider the Health, Science, Society and Policy concentration at Brandeis. I have a friend at Brandeis who I believe has a similar career goal as you and is concentrating in it:
[Heath:</a> Science, Society and Policy | Brandeis University](<a href=“http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/hssp/about.html]Heath:”>http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/hssp/about.html)</p>
<p>You got into one good school and three mediocre ones. Its not a tough decision, especially considering the strength of Bowdoin’s gov major if you’re thinking law.</p>
<p>Without engaging in cheap attacks on Bowdoin of the kind that slamdunk 45 attempts against Brandeis, Barnard and Bryn Mawr (e.g like pointing out that Bowdoin, although a fine school, labors in obscurity as a small college in Brunswick Maine), I would suggest that the OP look at the qualitative factors for the right fit as, ultimately, they are all fine schools. Here’s my take on the similar choice posed in another post between Brandeis, Bates and Wellsley:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/686144-would-you-pick-bates-brandeis-wellesley.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/686144-would-you-pick-bates-brandeis-wellesley.html</a></p>
<p>Also, with respect to law school acceptances, I’m not familiar with Bowdoin’s acceptance rates, which I’m sure are fine. However, I do know that Brandeis students have excellent rates of acceptance at top law, medical and other graduate schools. As an interesting example from elsewhere on this site, a list of colleges with the highest placement ratios at Harvard Law School in 2006 puts Brandeis in the top twenty. Bowdoin is not on the list. See:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/662310-ranking-undergrad-highest-acceptance-rates-law-school.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/662310-ranking-undergrad-highest-acceptance-rates-law-school.html</a></p>
<p>bowdoin…and i usually don’t hang around the bowdoin forum ha</p>
<h2>…a list of colleges with the highest placement ratios at Harvard Law School in 2006 puts Brandeis in the top twenty. Bowdoin is not on the list. </h2>
<p>If you want to talk about that kind of thing, the Wall Street Journal has a list of Top 50 feeder schools, ranked by the percentage of graduates going on to the 15 most prestigious grad programs in the country. Bowdoin was ranked 19, Brandeis 39.</p>
<p>If you want to talk about name recognition, Brandeis is certainly one of the more “obscure” “top” universities.</p>
<p>BMC and Barnard are definitely not mediocre.</p>
<p>not “bowdion” cause you can’t spell it</p>
<p>Alliteration! </p>
<p>It would be easier to decide if one of them did NOT start with B.</p>
<p>Haha…i didnt notice that.</p>
<p>I think that you should visit the schools if you can.
For me, Bowdoin just felt right and I could totally see myself there.</p>
<p>And there is no reason to be hating you guys. Don’t listen to slamdunk. All of the schools are good schools. mediocre is such a nasty sounding word.</p>
<p>My father dated a girl whose ancestors were Bowdoin’s who wrote a small book of poems called “eggs”.</p>
<p>Since you have chosen 4 schools, of which two are female centered and two are coed, you must first ask yourself, is it the female experience of being at Bryn Mawr or Barnard that you desire vs the Bowdoin or Brandeis environment?</p>
<p>If I was female and wanted a feminine environment, Bryn Mawr would be my choice over Barnard unless I was from a major metropolitan environment where noise were a factor. With regards Bowdoin or Brandeis, Bowdoin is an LAC while Brandeis is a University. </p>
<p>Since your choices are primarlly LAC’s I guess the choices have been narrowed significantly.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>My dilemma is that I want to go to a small LAC. However it seems that Brandeis has more recognition. I am not so sure if it would be harder in the work force to get a job if people have no clue where I went to college. Many people just assume that Bowdoin is a community college. I am currently abroad so I cant visit any of the schools so I am kinda basing my decision on opinions. Thank you</p>
<p>Universities do have the edge in job placements, though it ultimately depends on how strong a candidate you actually are. My impression is that the women’s colleges tend to have bigger name recognition among top LACs.</p>
<p>lollipop, i would go with Brandeis. Brandeis offers all the benefits of a small LAC and high name recognition. I just went on a job interview and they said they only interviewed 7 out of 100 applicants so clearly the Brandeis name helps in getting a job.</p>
<p>Some women’s colleges have greater recognition than the LACs but I don’t know that Bryn Mawr would be one of them. The name women’s colleges would probably be Wellesley and Smith. Barnard is a bit obscure too these days . .</p>
<p>Wellesley definitely has the name-recognition. I heard on your barnard diploma is actually Columbia’s name.</p>
<p>Just to reiterate, in response to another post, the undergrad school is very much a liberal arts college. You are required and encouraged to take courses in a number of areas through distribution requirements and double-counting.
While I guess 3,000 undergrads might sound daunting, it doesn’t strike you as that big, you always end up seeing people you know as you walk across campus and it’s very easy to form close relationships with professors.
[Undergraduate</a> Education | Academics | Brandeis University](<a href=“School of Arts and Sciences | Brandeis University”>School of Arts and Sciences | Brandeis University)</p>