<p>Im being recruited at Bowdoin and Amherst for athletics and Im trying to decide between the two for ED. What are the advantages to Bowdoin over Amherst? Thanks. Any information would be helpful.</p>
<p>I think Bowdoin has a much less cutthroat environment. I may be way off base here, but I would liken Amherst to Swarthmore which is notorious for being overly competetive and stressful.</p>
<p>One major difference between Bowdoin and Amherst is that Amherst has an open curriculum. Also, Amherst is more selective than Bowdoin.</p>
<p>From what I've seen of its students, Amherst is much closer to Bowdoin than Swarthmore when its comes to student mentality.</p>
<p>Which school (Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Williams) offers the better math major education? Also, any favorites amongst these schools for internships/job offers in the hedge fun or investment banking fields?</p>
<p>Williams has a great math program.</p>
<p>wesleyan has a math-econ major:[Wesleyan</a> University](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/econ/newmecoblue.html]Wesleyan”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/econ/newmecoblue.html) and a fairly large department (21 current faculty) for a LAC.</p>
<p>i think if the question is, who interviews the most for IB jobs, the answer is Williams hands down.</p>
<p>As you are being recruited for athletics, what field do you sport?</p>
<p>Same question as above, and then some: how do you get recruited from Bowdoin? As such a small school I can’t imagine them really having as much money to allocate as the bigger/Ivy schools do. Did you email the coach and schedule something…go to a local school? I live out in California, and I’m curious as to how I could set up something early.</p>
<p>Hey there! I also had to decide between Amherst and Bowdoin at one point. It’s really difficult to choose unless you’ve visited the campuses (usually you will know within a matter of minutes or hours which you would prefer due to the feel of the campus). Is there any way you can visit them? If not, I’d be more than willing to share my (albeit somewhat biased) opinions about them both.</p>
<p>Alexandra - I believe that you start the recruitment process by [going</a> here and filling out the questionnaire for “prospective athletes.”](<a href=“http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/information/prospect/index]going”>Bowdoin College - Official Athletics Website) The coach should then follow up and give you some sense of what you need to do.</p>
<p>While filling out the prospective athletes questionnaire may help some kids, Coaches generally do their own recruiting and some coaches have scouts or friends of the program who help the coach in recruiting. NESCAC schools can not offer athletic scholarships, all they can offer really is help getting into the school.</p>
<p>Interesting and helpful info! Since I live out in Cali, its unlikely that anything beyond contacting the coach will be possible, right?</p>
<p>The only way for the process to start for a person like you is for you to contact the coach since you are in Calif and probably would not be on his/her radar in the normal course of events. If your sport is an individual sport, it is relatively easy to figure out where you stand based on times or in the case of a sport like tennis, your ranking. For team sports, it is harder of course but the coach can consider things like videotape, your coach’s recommendations, and your stats and get some sense of what you can contribute even if he/she cannot see you play . .</p>
<p>If Williams is taken out of the mix, which of the following schools (Bowdoin, Amherst, Wesleyan, Middlebury) has good connections with IB or hedge funds? Do they look for math, physics, or economics majors?</p>
<p>Those schools, none of them as far as I know, are very good for connections. The major point they are known for is “learning for the sake of learning”.</p>
<p>Thanks SO much, torasee! That’s very helpful information. Also: is it possible to get recruited if you don’t have the sport available at your school? I had heard something about that and I was intrigued. I play several sports and am top ranked in some parts, but I’m not by any stretch of the imagination top in California. Would Bowdoin still recognize me or is that futile?</p>
<p>If the sport is not available in your school but you manage to play it in some other venue where you are able to demonstrate your skill, it should not matter. As long as you have some way to substantiate your skill by some objective criteria (like rankings), you should be able to interest the coach. But do go to Bowdoin’s website and make sure that it offers the sport(s) you would like to pursue.</p>
<p>Awesome, and thanks! That’s really helpful; I never bothered to educate myself on the process, but it is certainly much more important now.</p>