<p>Both gave the same amount of financial aid. Which is stronger academically and which would have the best post-grad opportunities (jobs and grad school)? Which has more grade deflation? </p>
<p>Which would you want to go to, and why?</p>
<p>Tufts, for location alone: can’t beat Boston for a great student atmosphere. Tuft’s grad schools and proximity to the city will lend itself to more research/internship possibilities.</p>
<p>Bowdoin is definitely a better school. Tufts is near Boston.</p>
<p>But which will provide the better job opportunities after graduation?</p>
<p>That landslide you’re hearing is Bowdoin.</p>
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<p>You will provide yourself job opportunities after college. I wouldn’t expect that either Tufts or Bowdoin would outdo the other in that regard.</p>
<p>“That landslide you’re hearing is Bowdoin.”</p>
<p>What does that mean LOL</p>
<p>never heard of that phrase before</p>
<p>Both are great. What kind of financial considerations are there and what kind of environment are you looking for?</p>
<p>Personally, I’d go to Bowdoin because I love the small, close atmosphere. It’s just a better school, at least academically AND prestige-wise. I don’t think Boston is that great, and I didn’t mind Maine. Plus Bowdoin has a great English program.</p>
<p>But it depends on you… what majors are you interested in? Can you deal with Maine winters? Do you want smaller school or bigger school? Maybe try to think about what you like and dislike about your high school. Is Bowdoin or Tufts more similar in terms of the aspects you like about hs? Which one shares more in common with the things you don’t like? For instance, if you love that your school is big and your constantly meeting new people, that points to Tufts. If you think teachers are always busy and you never get a chance to talk to them, maybe you should go to Bowdoin.</p>
<p>I know both schools very well through relatives and friends who have attended each. My take is this:</p>
<p>Both are superior, top-notch institutions. Bowdoin has a beautiful seacoast New England-style college campus, dotted with pine trees and woods, somewhat isolated (especially in winter). Tufts has an attractive hilly campus that is a combination of New England liberal arts college and very small university, surrounded by urban areas. </p>
<p>Both have very strong departments in certain areas. Bowdoin is especially noted for English and political science while Tufts is highly regarded for International Relations and interdisciplinary studies. Both have accomplished programs in the sciences, including biology, chemistry and pre-med preparation. Both schools send a large proportion of their students to professional and graduate schools. Bowdoin’s students, by and large, tend to be more involved in sports and intramurals while the interests of Tufts students are generally more “nerdy” and eclectic.</p>
<p>Bowdoin is highly prestigious and has a very strong academic reputation, viewed to be just a shade below schools such as Swarthmore, Amherst and Williams (although it is arguably just as good). Tufts’ level of prestige and academic reputation has risen steadily throughout the past thirty or so years and the school is now considered to be on par with the “lower” Ivies and sub-Ivies. Bowdoin gets special props for its classical liberal arts education and overall strength in many classical liberal arts majors: Tufts’ students, on the whole, have slightly higher SAT and ACT scores than Bowdoin students and were/are ostensibly selected for their demonstrated qualities of leadership and civic engagement.</p>
<p>Although Bowdoin and Tufts like to brag about economic, racial, and cultural diversity initiatives in their admissions processes, many - if not most - of the students at both schools come from wealthy families and “privileged” backgrounds. Despite the fact that Bowdoin and Tufts champion intellectual growth and development, a large percentage of the students at both institutions drink like fish, use recreational drugs, and engage in ridiculous, immature, and dangerous behavior like any other stereotypical college kids.</p>
<p>You really can’t go wrong at either school. On the other hand (and this is essential), it will be your academic and overall performance at either school that will essentially dictate what happens to you at graduation, not the name of the particular school from which you graduated.</p>
<p>^ your fifth paragraph looks lik it came from a different person~~ lol.
appreciate the different perspective though</p>
<p>i was going to ask endicott for back up of his stmt</p>
<p>“Bowdoin is definitely a better school”</p>
<p>but then I saw just-the-facts fine compare and contrast. Students: THAT is what a liberal arts education college gets you, the ability to sift through and tease out the components of nebulous grayness. just-the-facts, where did you go to college (prolly a lincoln/gates self taught guy after my schpiel!)</p>
<p>If prestige means name the greatest recognition over the greatest distance, TUFTs wd edge Bowdoin (“you mean the football coach?”) from where I am from , chicago in the mw.</p>