<p>Just looked up info on Bowdoin and it looks like a cool place to me. The thing that concerns me about other places is how hostile they seem to conservatives. How liberal or conservative are the kids at Bowdoin, and how liberal are the professors? Thanks.</p>
<p>The college as a whole, like basically every college in the NE, is liberal, although it isn't as super-liberal as like say Wesleyan. The college also has smaller but vocal Republican/conservative contingent. The Bowdoin College Republicans won some award from the national committee this year, and the college front page advertises that the head of the group was nominated to some national position.</p>
<p>You should look at Middlebury. Very similar school as Bowdoin, similarly difficult to get into, but is apparently (if CC posters are to be believed) slightly more conservative as a whole (although the people I know there are very very liberal).</p>
<p>Haha... I'm a member of the Maine College Republicans from Bates. The Bowdoin CRs didn't win any national thing, it was a state award for best chapter in Maine (which they won because 3/5s of the state exec board is from Bowdoin, lol.)</p>
<p>There's deff a strong conservative presence on Maine campuses and a great state org. The same goes for Midd - I know some great conservatives from there, and they're an accepting community. But if you think Bowdoin is the school you want to go to, don't hold back because of some purported hostile environment, because there's a good conservative presence there.</p>
<p>PS the professors are overwhelmingly liberal. I think the track coach is a Republican though!</p>
<p>Oh, my bad. I thought I read that it was national, but I guess it was just for Maine.</p>
<p>Hi, I'm probably applying next year, and I was wondering what sortof act/sat scores you should/shouldn't give to schools that don't require them (like Bowdoin)</p>
<p>look @ the average on a site like princetonreview, and if you've got a higher score, send it.</p>
<p>That's the strategy I would assume to use - anyone else have input here?</p>