How to get into Bowdoin?!

BenjaminBraddock
Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:29:13 +0000

I agree with GDMACK. Bates and Colby are also wonderful schools that can provide you with everything you are looking for in Bowdoin. Also give serious thought to these institutions(maybe visit them when you go visiting Bowdoin). Of course, if you still feel there is no place you’d rather be than Bowdoin, then by all means, go for it. Your enthusiasm for attending this particular school will translate through to make you a good candidate. From my own personal experience, and from following the Bowdoin acceptances thread his year, I feel that many times Bowdoin chooses kids who it knows would be a good fit and would flourish in, and add something to, the particular environment unique to Bowdoin. Maybe that is why applicants with perfect GPAs and SAT scores and brilliant ECs are waitlisted or rejected. I know someone who got in this year, with nowhere near a steller academic record(to her credit, she was an international from a very diverse background, spoke four languages, had good EC’s and applied ED but was no where near some of the kids that got rejected both through the ED and RD rounds). I wish you the best of luck :)