How to get into Bowdoin?!

GDMACK
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:46:41 +0000

It is definitely a reach for you. My daughter had a 3.93 UW average, a 4.03 weighted, and an ACT Composite of 33 (perfect 36 on Math and perfect 36 on English). She was from California (geographic diversity) she was on a nationally ranked Crew Team for 3 years, and was being recruited at Penn for their Crew Team. She had done a month long study abroad program in France where she lived with a French family and spoke only French, and a month long in Cambodia and Laos doing community service work in remote villages that are not on most maps, sleeping on the floor of the tribal elder’s home. She was waitlisted at Bowdoin. Apply to Bowdoin if you love it, but also look at other schools like Bates and Colby which are similar schools but easier to get into. My daughter ended up at Colby, and is very glad she did not get into Bowdoin.