Bowdoin vs Middlebury vs Colby

torasee
Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:33:28 +0000

I mean is bowdoin, in terms of overall academics, and the quality of teachers, all that much better than middlebury?



It depends upon what you are interested in . . Middlebury would be superior to Bowdoin in foreign languages while Bowdoin would be superior in sciences and government. You implied that you were interested in pre-med in one of you’re earlier questions and, if that’s the case, Bowdoin should probably be your choice.

Both schools are great schools academically so you probably won’t go wrong either way as long as you are a strong student. However, there are important distinctions between the two, some of which involve subjective considerations (smaller size and intimate campus at Bowdoin versus sprawling and hilly Middlebury campus; ocean versus mountains; the deeper and long history of Bowdoin; Maine versus Vermont and so on).