Trip report: Bates, Bowdoin & Colby

dobiesk8r
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:37 +0000

My daughter and I went to visit Colby after she was accepted last spring. We took the accepted students tour, and my daughter attended a couple of classes. One of her friends is in the 2010 class, which is how she heard of the school, and his sister goes to Bates.

We were very impressed with the friendliness of the faculty and admissions staff (that was our reaction at Trinity also) and the students, who were very laid-back and casually dressed. We thought the campus was very attractive, much better than Middlebury, which had a proliferation of white buildings.

In the end she decided to attend W&L, where the students are not very laid-back and casually dressed. Go figure.