<p>it's definitely brown hair and J Crew</p>
<p>:-p</p>
<p>There are all types here, and it's getting more heterogeneous by the year.</p>
<p>This is bad news.</p>
<p>I'm blonde hair and J Crew. I definitely won't fit in :(</p>
<p>If you don't fit the stereotype, would you be look differently? Do you really think there is a group of people for everyone at Bowdoin??</p>
<p>Well slim, you'll obviously have to pull a Britney and dye your hair brown.</p>
<p>Just kidding. :)</p>
<p>I have blonde hair and I'm not a big fan of J Crew. I'm more of an Izod and Gap kid. Just in case anyone was wondering ;)</p>
<p>What about being Jewish?</p>
<p>Oh you guys. You'll be fine! :)</p>
<p>regarding 'being jewish'</p>
<p>there's an active hillel group on campus, and definitely a group of jewish students, faculty, and staff. For example, the president of the college.</p>
<p>Thanks Oliver. I know the president is Jewish, but good to know he's not the only one.</p>
<p>I'd like to renew this thread to ask a question:</p>
<p>I really liked the concept of the residential houses (I think it would be nice to have that kind of a place as a freshman), but I recently heard that the residential houses promote (or exacerbate) the whole "cliques" problem. Could someone tell me about the residential house experience and whether it negatively divides the freshman class?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Also, could someone tell me about the meal plan?</p>
<p>Meal Plan:</p>
<p>you start with a 19/week plan: 7 dinners, 5(M-F) breakfast, 5(M-F) lunch, 2 brunches on the weekend. After first semester freshman year, you can change:
14/week and 100 polar points
10/week and 350 polar points
9/week and 200 polar points
995 polar point declining balance plan</p>
<p>polar points are basically 'good as cash' to spend on either extra meals, food at jack magees grill, the cafe, or the c-store.</p>
<p>I've been on 10/week for the last 7 semesters (all of them except when I had to be on 19). I don't eat breakfast, so I only eat 14 meals a week. I eat every lunch in the dining hall for convenience sake, and on the weekends, I go into town to eat at my favorite places - Warming's Market, Big Top Deli, etc. Two nights a week, we either eat at the pub if we don't like the dining menus (the $350 polar points let us do this easily) or go out.</p>
<p>re: residential house.
The college is trying to change the perception of these, on campus I think you'll still hear them called 'social houses' but I don't think they divide the class. You're naturally going to meet a lot of people in your own dorm freshman year, but everyone is generally friendly. There are house competitions: an orientation olympics, etc. </p>
<p>Some houses can be cliquish- it depends from year to year. Other houses can widely vary with their population. There's no general answer. You could accurately say something like, "yes, Ladd '06 was a very cliquish house," but I don't think it would be accurate to say "Ladd is always cliquish"</p>
<p>Everything depends on who is living there, really.</p>
<p>Thanks! I'm getting really excited about Bowdoin, and I am nearly positive that I will be attending next year!! Could you also tell me about how you pick housing and what the best choices are?</p>
<p>You can choose between chem free (Hyde Hall) and non-chem free (everything else) dorms. All of the freshman dorms are newly renovated and are pretty similar so there really is no "best" dorm. 2 out of the 8 freshman dorms are two room doubles (West and East/Osher), the rest are the traditional freshman "bricks" that are quads (Moore, Maine, Winthrop, Appleton, Coleman). </p>
<p>In May you will get a packet with a housing questionnaire that has questions about your living habits (waking/sleeping times, music preferences, chem free/non chem free, clean/messy, etc) and you will be placed from there.</p>
<p>Hey guys,
I was accepted early decision this year, and I'm supposedly going to play hockey, only I'm having second thoughts about joining the team.
This is a really stupid question, but, when I visited in November and January, I got the feeling that students who don't participate in sports are, in a sense, shunned or looked down on... any thoughts?</p>
<p>If you got in based on a coach's request, and then choose not to play, I think some ire may be directed towards you. I don't know if you got in based on your own stats, or if a coach used some of their finite influence to get you in, so I can't speak for sure.</p>
<p>Answering the shunning question, no, students who don't play sports aren't shunned.</p>
<p>But think, if you made a commitment to come to college to play a sport, and got in because of that, are you going to then break that commitment? You're becoming the adult you're going to be.</p>
<p>Is there mostly drinking on campus, or is there a fair amount of weed as well?</p>
<p>I got in on my own stats, so I have more of a choice than if the coach had to pull for me to get in.
Don't worry, I wouldn't just abandon commitment like that.
thanks</p>
<p>Re: #36 That's just really exciting for those of us parents thinking about our offspring going to Bowdoin. The kind of present or future student I want my DS or DD hanging around with? And no one on this board, no present student, to respond to this? Just the kind of reputation that will really help Bowdoin retain its high ranking (not!).</p>
<p>radimom, I understand that the post upset you, but as a prospective student, I would like to know the answer to snucky's question as well. I have never smoked pot (nor do I ever plan to), and therefore the prevalence of it on a college campus is an important issue to me. I have heard about Bowdoin's reputation for having a fair amount of drinking (and a fair amount of people who don't drink), but I have not heard much about the drug scene. I honestly don't think that a question like that reflects anything about Bowdoin's "ranking", nor should it. This is a thread for prospective students to ask current students about Bowdoin and issues that are important to them. Snucky never said s/he wanted to smoke - s/he was merely asking a question. And I, for one, would like to second that question.</p>
<p>I talk to a lot of kids about coming to Bowdoin - both online and in person. I also talk to some kids and their parents in person. And the worst thing, I feel, is parents getting involved with the discussion of alcohol/drugs in college.</p>
<p>You've raised your child for 18 years. They are who they are. Continue to provide support and positive role models. But it's time to back off of them.</p>
<p>I didn't respond to the post earlier, because I don't have any real experience. But now I will respond, because I think radimom's response is bothersome.</p>
<p>Mom, there's alcohol at Bowdoin College. Lots of it. Beer in kegs, vodka in nalgenes (despite the college's "ban" on hard alcohol).</p>
<p>I manage the pub on campus. Underage kids come in drunk as skunks every Thursday night.</p>
<p>There is weed here, but you can easily go 4 years never seeing it. You might have to work harder to avoid smelling it in some corners of campus late at night.</p>
<p>You want to find it, you can. You want to avoid it, you can. Avoiding weed will not dull your social life here at all. Avoiding alcohol, in my opinion, will.</p>
<p>And radimom, the biggest piece of advice I can give your child about coming to Bowdoin and thriving will be this: CHILL OUT.</p>