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<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>Bowdoin</li>
<li>Colby</li>
<li>Hamilton</li>
<li>Bates</li>
<li>Connecticut</li>
<li>Trinity (I’m posting on my phone so this is gonna look a little weird) but I can not believe some people would rate ConnCollege and Trinity over Colby. While I agree that Bowdoin and Colby engage in the biggest rivalry(academically), you can ask more of the students at Colby and Bowdoin and they’ll tell you Bates is in the lower tier of the 3. From what I’ve heard, Bates dorms are the ugliest and least renovated, and Bates is probably the least prestigious of all 3. Now don’t get me wrong, Bates is still an amazing school, but saying its better than Colby is a bit of a stretch. Now as to Connecticut College and Trinity, most kids at ANY NESCAC school will tell you these are the least “worthy” of the NESCAC. As kids at both Colby and Bowdoin told me when I toured, “ConnCollege and Trinity are the ***hole of the NESCAC.”</li>
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