LACs: Bates vs. Colby vs. Whitman

nyreader
Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:41:36 +0000

Thank you @xyz123a and @Lindagaf – exactly the kinds of perspective I was hoping for. @Lindagaf, I may come back for more (we haven’t been viewing combining rhetoric and film as a good thing, honestly). And he did like Lewiston more than I expected, just not as much as Brunswick and even Waterville (he likes the main street feel of both).

@merc81 He’s definitely not interested in “straight” CS right now. The Colby major makes it clear there is a “straight” CS track and a data/visualization/applied track (based on the various courses required), and he’s much more interested in the latter. I think the DCS major at Bates scares us all a little because there seems to be so little CS backbone, just the more humanities / social sciences perspectives. Since Bowdoin has both CS and DCS, the ability to get at least a decent CS foundation but then focus on the applied DCS options is appealing (he does NOT like the straight CS major there, but only the DCS major). But honestly he can always get more CS training later through General Assembly, etc. – this is supposed to be a liberal arts education by design.