<p>Hi Everyone!
I have recently decided to go to Bates and I am seriously freaking out…I originally decided to go based on the fact that it is an academically rigorous school that was founded by abolitionists but I am beginning to have second thoughts.
Do you think I will feel ostracized because I am from the middle class? Bates has a reputation for being a school for the children of a very elite white collar sector of the population which their is absolutely nothing wrong with…but do you think I will feel left out/ be excluded coming from a less affluent background?</p>
<p>Do not worry tiny dancer, we are most solidly in the middle class! My daughter , who like many other Batesies are receiving significant financial aide and work study,applied ED and will be entering this fall. She loved the lack of pretentiousness felt on the Bates campus.</p>