Internships/Job Preparation and Academic Questions

sailfish
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:51:40 +0000

There seem to be some enthusiastic Bates partisans on this site but I wouldn’t make a decision on which college to attend based on the uninformed opinions that are often posted. Many Colby students are pre-med majors and their med school admission rates are at least equal to those of Bates students from what I’ve seen. Statistical as opposed to anecdotal information should be available, though, from the two colleges as well as from medical schools.

Colby has excellent departments in government and international studies. Economics is also strong. It has the highest percentage of students studying abroad of any Nescac school. A very high percentage of students go to graduate school within 5 years. I don’t know a lot about the psychology or philosophy programs but in general the academic program is very strong. In all fairness that’s also true of the programs at Bates, Bowdoin and the other Nescac schools.

You never know who is posting on these sites or whether they have a clue about what they so confidently put out there so be careful where you get the information on which you base major life decisions.