<p>was browsing these threads while procrastinating in preparation for law school exams and thought i’d post. i graduated from bowdoin a few years ago and am at law school, now. </p>
<p>at bowdoin i worked in the admissions office. what struck me about the admissions officers at bowdoin is their true regret that they can’t admit all the students they would like each year. my senior year i congratulated one of the associate deans for having such a low acceptance rate. she looked disappointed and replied, “it’s a real pity we had to turn away so many great students this year.” i was surprised by her response, and it really is illustrative of how bowdoin approaches selecting a class. please know they’d rather not be turning down those of you who truly want to come. </p>
<p>i know it’s hard to be deferred or rejected from a top choice college. but trust what others are saying, namely that what matters is less where you go to college but why you go. at bowdoin, there are jocks, pot-heads, intellectuals, politicians, artists, cynics, and romantics. any college will have these folks. you’ll befriend great people at whatever school you attend who will be with you to experience a winning goal, or the beauty of nabokov’s work, or a campaign for the next mayor, senator, governor, president. your experiences and the people you meet will dictate your experience in college; it is rarely the college itself which exclusively provides the experience. bowdoin has no monopoly on the quality of college students, and is, at least for me, merely incidental to why i loved college. </p>
<p>there are so many great places, and great people going to all sorts of schools everyone keep their chins up! and good luck with what appears to be a dramatically difficult admissions season.</p>
<p>Thank Pb2002,
your encouragement is very useful at this time. The first time to apply to a college and the first time to be deferred/rejected. It's not easy to overcome that failure.
Bowdoin is prestigious,Bowdoin is rich, Bowdoin is academic... Bowdoin is beautiful, food at Bowdoin is excellent, students at Bowdoin are great, professors at Bowdoin are famous and talented....This stuff makes me love Bowdoin and apply to Bowdoin as an ED applicant.
I know that deferral is not the end. But as a "Little Ivy", Bowdoin maybe overreach with deferree..
Maybe at this time, I was nervous and anxious..</p>
<p>Bowdoin isn't the official "little ivy" The three little ivies are really Williams, Amherst, and Wesleyan. But, Bowdoin is ranked higher than Wesleyan and is almost always on the list of "little ivies." I just didn't want to give anyone the wrong idea not that it really matters anyway.</p>
<p>there are a few things that attracted me to Bowdoin
- small classroom size
- Intellectual/knoledgeable/Concerned Student Body
- Individualised Attention
- away from the City
- Supporting Professors
- Sail team
- much more</p>
<p>the only thing that turned me of...gave me "cold feet" if you my,
was the ...lets say "haughty" tone of one of a Admission officer at a Bowdoin "session"...Note: one, he was the only Bowdoin representative I met who exhibited such characteristic.</p>
<p>anyways, thank you pb2002 for the words of encouragement :-)</p>
<p>Neal376, our experience of Bowdoin's admissions officers was entirely opposite of yours. In our experience, Bowdoin's admissions office was the least haughty and the most helpful. Instead of being treating like another annoying applicant when my D called with questions, she was treated like a person who had value. I appreciate that you noted your experience was only with one person and I hope you have other opportunities to meet with others in the admissions office.</p>
<p>Oh yes, I have and they were very nice :-) thats why I still believe Bowdoin is the school I originally thought it was. What I experianced was more or less an isolated incident</p>