Appropriate Response to "How did you first learn about Bowdoin?"

Cicero1
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:23:45 +0000

Hello, all:
Bowdoin’s supplement to the Common Application has a question asking, “How did you first learn about Bowdoin?” Would it be alright to say that I first read about Bowdoin in Michael Shaara’s book “The Killer Angels” (a historical novel about the Battle of Gettysburg) where the main character, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (a non-fictional character), was a professor at Bowdoin before the war? It is actually how I heard about Bowdoin and I think it shows some of my passion for history.
Oh, and the answer is only supposed to be less than 100 characters.