Chances class of 2013

govman
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:31:47 +0000

I was accepted to Bowdoin for the class of 2012 and also plan on majoring in history. My grades were similar to yours and I too did an independent study in Euro History since my school didn’t offer it. What I tried to do was emphasize my passion for the subject by writing about history for the app essay, talking about it during my interview and participating in ec’s that paired up well with the subject: mainly through work on political campaigns and journalism (I was editor of the school newspaper and did freelance reporting for the local paper). Of course, the importance of such factors is relative to where you go to school; my high school had never sent anyone to Bowdoin and very few students end up going out of state for college, much less a liberal arts school (the last grad who did went to Amherst four years ago). Nevertheless, if your school has a better history of sending kids off to lac’s, or any very selective schools, then all it means is that you should put that much more emphasis on showing a talent and passion for a certain field of study.