Skinny on this year's admissions process

bowdoinohnine
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:23:21 +0000

Hi guys. I’m actually the guy who wrote this article. The reason Admissions sends out early admissions in the second week of March to some students is for two reasons:

1. If you’re at the top of their list, and they’re ready to accept you, then yo’ull get a letter so you know that Bowdoin really wants you and so you can plan your visit well in advance.

2. If you’re a student of color (that means any non-Caucasian race, I think (it might be even more inclusive), not just black) who is very likely to be accepted. This is because the admissions office holds a multicultural “experience” weekend near the beginning of April, and in order to give you time to sign up for the weekend, they might give you your acceptances earlier. However, this does NOT mean that if you are a student of color and you haven’t received your acceptance by the third week of March that you weren’t accepted.

Piratemonkey… Dean Shain told me that the other NESCAC schools’ stats were given to him on a confidential basis, so he wouldn’t show them to me, but he did say that other schools also showed little growth.

From the article:

Shain said that Bowdoin’s NESCAC rivals saw similar gains.

“My sense is that it is rare this year for a liberal arts college to see an increase of more than two to three percent in U.S. applications,” he said.

If you guys have any other questions on this topic, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me (you can find my e-mail in my profile, I think).

Incidentally, if you are interested in joining the newspaper at Bowdoin, please let me know and I’ll tell you a little about it!