Midwest vs. New England

bethievt
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:58:48 +0000

As someone else said, these are all wonderful schools loaded with great kids. We visited Bates because our friend who is a hs GC in Maine told us it was the “least preppy” of the Maine schools. We felt like we’d walked into a North Face catalog, so it’s not preppy by some definitions, but it felt so to us. And we all had the same reaction without talking about it. Maybe conventional is a better descriptor than preppy. If there was a quirk factor there, it was deeply in hiding during our visit. Of course this was just a one-day visit, but we visited 20 colleges all over the country, some for multiple days, and the ones that felt friendliest, quirkiest and most down-to-earth (to us) were mostly in the midwest.