<p>Bowdoin: Its small. Has Great Teachers. personal feel. Amazing dorms. less work. I love social houses. seamed like less aloof artsy kidds go there. Strong bonds. Teachers there to teach undergrads not research. smallness could get to be a bad thing after junior year. 3-2 engineering with Dartmouth and Columbia. </p>
<p>Cornell: Its too big for what I want. THE PARTIES ARE GREAT. Has an established agriculture school. amazing research opportunities (got into program with freshman research). TA's that often don't speak english. Big classes. Famous name. Poor Advising program. intense maybe even cut throat competition</p>
<p>Middlebury: Campus is great. Food and dorms below bowdoin. I am not sure about the make up of the student body. HARDWORK. Very smart student body. Small. Fantastic teachers. Focus On Environmental science. 3-2 engineering with Dartmouth and Columbia. Campus is suprior. Teachers are realy great. February admission. (need to plan for my semester off)</p>
<p>I want small but I want Cornell's parties (trinity looks good but I want a more intellectual student body). I favor preppy kids to artsy types. I want to do ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE OR maybe ENGINEERING (3-2) </p>
<p>(1)What are the differences and similarities between the student bodies of Bowdoin and Middlebury?</p>
<p>haha, well if you only like cornell for its parties, you shouldn’t go there.</p>
<p>from just your descriptions, i’d say you should consider Bowdoin, unless you don’t mind taking the first semester off at Middlebury. Def. pursue the 3-2 engineering with D/C.</p>
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I am just worried that I would not do very well in that environment. All the competition and professors that are there for research first and teaching second. Plus i feel like i might get lost academical and a school where your not relay overseen. </p>
<p>All along i wanted small lib arts. now I randomly got into Cornell and its an option. Any idea on what the student bodies are like?</p>
<p>Engineering is a discipline in which there is not a lot of hand-holding. Cornell is hard to beat for Engineering and Environmental Science. Cornell students are pretty easy to get along with, laid back but hard-working. But, it is important to know yourself and choose the school that fits best. Were you accepted into Engineering at Cornell? the Ag School?</p>
<p>Every school is. Middlebury is just being more open and transparent about it. And Middlebury has made no cuts to teachers, and no building projects are on hold (they already built all the new facilities, as opposed to other schools that have to postpone or cancel new projects.</p>
<p>And Middlebury has one of the most respected environmental studies programs on the planet.</p>
<p>I think the extent that Cornell is cutthroat is way overblown. None of my friends from Cornell seemed upset by the academic environment. All things even, I would probably pick Middlebury of these three, but not being able to start the first semester (which in my estimation is the best semester of college), I would go with Cornell. It’s probably the best in the sciences, still has an environment you would like, and the possibility of a 3-2 program at the other two seems like too much of an impediment to me.</p>
<p>Yeah. The environmental science students at Cornell are not cutthroat at all, and there are tons of opportunities for faculty-student interaction in the environmental sciences. It’s hard not get a research experience with a professor by your second year in the environmental sciences. And I never had a problem with the English language with my TAs.</p>
<p>You could, for instance, spend the week before you arrive on campus doing a lot of cool environmental stuff with Cornell professors:</p>
<p>They’re not “destroying” one of the three dining halls. The new Atwater dining hall will be used for special events and meals instead of remaining open for regular meal service. And cutting back on bringing in outside instructors isn’t the same as cutting teachers! In fact, these changes are being made to avoid having to lay anyone off. Bowdoin is adding 50 students (without hiring new faculty, thereby increasing the student/faculty ratio) and deferring maintenance and capital projects (so don’t expect any new buildings in the next few years). Midd has completed its major capital projects, so students matriculating there will enjoy a brand new library, science center, humanities building, sports facilities, etc.</p>
<p>Hilary and Trinity – I missed Michelmas. Not very difficult to set up provided you have the grades, intellectual interest, and gumption.</p>
<p>It’s a wonderful place to study, and Oxford has a fantastic student life. That said, I couldn’t imagine only studying one subject for three years as an undergrad.</p>
<p>Bowdoin is just finishing a brand new health and wellness center.</p>
<p>From everything I have read on both this board and elsewhere on the internet, the student bodies at Bowdoin and Middlebury are very similar. There are lots of people who apply to both schools. Midd has a reputation for being a little more jocky i think. But overall i think that is kinda false. There are all sorts of people at both these schools
I wouldn’'t say that Bowdoin is necessarily less work though. Bowdoin is suppose to be pretty darn difficult.
Bowdoin is suppose to be really preppy, and there are suppose to be a lot of parties. Not frat parties like at Cornell, animal house types, but there are lots of them. The environmental science department at Bowdoin is one of the larger ones and Bowdoin owns a couple of islands that have field stations for research.</p>
<p>I’m going to Bowdoin next year. So i am a little biased.</p>
<p>It really seems like you never really wanted to go to Cornell in the first place and, from the way you talked about it in your original post, still don’t want to go there.</p>
<p>I’d say Bowdoin. You say Cornell is too big and you want an LAC, so knock that off. If you’d gotten into Midd for the fall semester it would’ve been a more difficult choice, but I’d say that it’s not worth missing your first semester. Bowdoin is an excellent school, not too artsy, and it won’t feel small by junior year if you study abroad.</p>
<p>MIDDLEBURY- Set me up to start in september(no more second semester admission). Now I think might go there over Cornell. What descison would you make?</p>