LACs: Bates vs. Colby vs. Whitman

gardenstategal
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:29:20 +0000

My recent Colby grad had lots of opportunities to do music things (and only one was for credit.) There’s an active student band culture (which is facilitated by school instruments, amps, etc.) in addition to opportunities through the music department.

Not CS, so can’t speak to that major. Overall, he found it very collaborative and had a lot of engagement with profs (including those who had students over for dinners.) Curiously, the ones he connected with best were outside his major. I really liked the way this “fed” intellectual curiosity.

The career office was extremely helpful as well.

He ended up deciding between Bates and Colby and they vied for the top of his list throughout the application process. I suspect he’d have been just as happy at Bates. For him, the structure of the program in his expected (and ultimately actual) major was more to his liking at Colby.