Bowdoin has a lovely, park-like campus and a vital music department. (And it is much prettier than Bates, and located in the charming and lively town of Brunswick. 
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Bowdoin is also within easy reach of Portland, which has a lively music scene ranging from a professional symphony orchestra through indie bands and venues, and Brunswick/Portland have a number of high quality amateur classical vocal ensembles. The train to Boston now stops at the edge of the Bowdoin campus, and the musical resources there are just about unlimited.
Note that at any school you go to the average low temp for January will not be the actual average temp for January. It represents an extreme.
It is true that it gets dark early in the middle of the winter in Maine.