<p>well I attend Colby, heh, and we keep pretty close relations with the other two maine schools. I’d say they are all incredible schools. I get a more artsy, maladroit (no, I don’t mean that the two are synonomous), and inconsiderate feeling about the students at Bates from my experiences, Bowdoin is more interconnected with a city(which can be both a blessing and a curse), both bates and bowdoin have older campuses than Colby (which, I admit, is neat, but I still love the Colby buildings and their character-- sure, it doesn’t have the antiquated, “wow, someone who’s grandkids are probably dead sat right here 150 years ago” character, but it’s got other character), and more famous alums have graduated from Bowdoin (though the author of Brokeback mountain did attend Colby, lol). The professors at all three seem very affable and approachable, and, all in all, the three schools all offer similarly amazing experiences and opportunities (such as Bates mountain reserve, colby’s lake reserve, bowdoin and colby’s huge outing clubs, and sweet orientation trips [which originated at colby]), though, the larger endowments of bowdoin and Colby mean more money for professorships, science equiptment (for example, Colby has a resident quartet [the Portland Quartet, or soemthing] for use in Music classes, the only electron microscope in Maine, I believe, and a ton of other amazing instruments like mass-spectrometers, infrared mass spectrometers, expensive CaCF-windowed glass cells, etc.), club funding, etc.</p>
<p>All in all, I’d say Bowdoin truly is the best, but all three are very, very similar</p>