Bowdoin vs Middlebury vs Colby

FreeFree113
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:30:32 +0000

Well I just PM’ed this to you, but your mailbox was full.

Hey,

I’m going to Middlebury next year, but I’ll say this, Bowdoin vs. Middlebury = doesn’t matter which one you pick, they are both tremendous schools. They’re basically identical in terms of quality of academics and the caliber of the student body. A Bowdoin grad with a 3.8 GPA applying to med school is the same as a Midd grad with a 3.8 GPA applying. I don’t think anecdotes count for much, but my mom went to Middlebury and got into a fine Medical School (I think it was somewhere in Cambridge, MA…hmm…something ending in “arvard”).

I don’t really buy that the sciences/government at Bowdoin are stronger than they are at Middlebury, or that the languages at Middlebury are better than Bowdoin’s. Once you get schools of this caliber, almost everything they do will be good. If there are any differences, I would think they’re negligible.

Let other things guide you in your decisions, don’t worry about the prestige/quality of academics/grad school placement- they are the same. Think about which school felt “right”. I applied ED to Middlebury because it has ~650 more undergraduates than Bowdoin, which was a plus for me (1700 seems a little small). If Bowdoin had had 2350 kids and Middlebury 1700, well, then I’d probably heading up to Brunswick next year. You really can’t make a bad choice. Lemmie know what you decide.