I was just quoting a couple of reviews I saw on a Niche for Bowdoin. I haven’t ever even been to the university so I am not commenting based on personala opinion but only asking for validation of whether it is true or not.
Judging based on how you say, it is intellectually challenging to be at, I am going to assume that the reviews are written out of spite or some other reason not reflecting the actual intellectual and employment enviornment at the uni