<p>Yeah, but that was a while ago. Recently, especially since Bowdoin went co-ed and got more prestigious in even more recent years, it has lost that reputation somewhat. Bates, from what I have heard, is pretty ridiculous sometimes… and not that many Jews go there anymore (still probably more than the others though). I heard too that Bowdoin was ranked second behind Dartmouth in drinking, but that was in the 60s I think, when it was just sort of a school for rich private school kids who didn’t get into Harvard or Princeton from Boston and New York. Bowdoin took a few steps above Bates and Colby, and now has a bit more intellectual reputation than anything else.<br>
oliver, what is your impression of Bates students? Don’t you get the feeling they party hard (including smoking)?</p>