<p>See the article posted by Linde yesterday. I visited Bowdoin over the weekend for a NESCAC competition and the campus is beautiful, and the student body appeared most diverse of these schools which I have seen.</p>
<p>Dean Scott Meiklejohn: Table for Twelve?Inside Bowdoin?s Admissions Committee Bowdoin Daily Sun</p>
<p>re: my previous post - I am not savvy enough to get the link at the bottom of my post to work. Please see Linde’s post in the thread, Nice Article about Bowdoin, from yesterday</p>
<p>If you take a look at the schools where Bowdoin sends its admissions counselors on the road, you will notice that they are very conscious of where the high income areas are. That being said, Bowdoin is definitely interested in admitting students who will qualify for financial aid.</p>
<p>Just jumping in here with a cautionary tale. I do believe that Bowdoin is need blind in its acceptances, but it’s the second part of the claim, meeting 100% demonstrated need, where they get a little slippery. My son was accepted RD last year, Bowdoin was his first choice. They say they meet 100% demonstrated need, however, they determine what your need is based on their own formula. Bowdoin offered my son half the aid that Colby and Tufts did, both of which use the CSS profile to determine need. It was heart wrenching for all of us, and my son ended up not going to Bowdoin. Since then I’ve heard the same story from other families.</p>
<p>Bowdoin also uses CSS Profile, but the catch is that Profile does not produce a single result; each school applies various Profile options as it chooses, with, as shown, widely varying results. :(</p>
<p>Does bowdoin meet full need for international students who want to apply ED???</p>
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<p>I find this hard to believe for a school such as Bowdoin. If true, then it definitely would put Bowdoin at a disadvantage to the Williamses and Amhersts of the world. I could see a thousand or two dollars less and maybe more of a loan, but not 1/2 the financial aid of competing colleges.</p>
<p>i have a friend who got way more aid at bowdoin than williams, so it all depends on the applicants numbers.</p>
<p>jennguyen, i don’t think it does. the only schools that do this as of now are amherst, harvard, yale, princeton, dartmouth, and MIT</p>
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<p>Bowdoin is not need-blind for international students. But jennguyen isn’t asking if they’re need-blind, but rather if Bowdoin will meet the full demonstrated need of accepted ED students. I think the answer is yes. I know for a fact that Middlebury meets the full demonstrated need of all accepted students, including international students.</p>
<p>right but since they aren’t need-blind for international students, most of them will be wealthy enough that any aid given is negligible</p>
<p>“I find this hard to believe for a school such as Bowdoin.”</p>
<p>^^ Believe it. Last year, my son got an “early write” acceptance from Bowdoin, but ZERO in need-based financial aid. Three or four peer schools gave us around $20K in need-based aid. So, in our case, either Bowdoin did not meet full demonstrated need, or it calculated our need much differently from other schools.</p>
<p>^ Just curious: Since Bowdoin meets full need, can you guess why they might have thought you didn’t need it? Assets, expenses other schools recognized?</p>
<p>No idea, really. Our financial profile is uncomplicated. One-income family, not self-employed, a house that we can afford with a fixed mortgage, no other assets aside from what we’ve put away in tax-deferred retirement instruments. For what it’s worth, Middlebury also gave us zero. Maybe they considered the equity in our house (about $200K equity in a house appraised at $250K). Just guessing, though.</p>