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Rarely in its history could the What? have had a such direct impact on the social lives of those in the Harvard Community than during the Spring of 1983. That’s when I wrote a profile of a male Bowdoin student who was spending the academic year at Wellesley College. Though the article itself was relatively tame, the very delicate subject matter and suggestive headline, “Some Like It Hot” generated a good deal of controversy and mail...
...keeping the kids from making the same mistakes when they are back in society presents the largest challenge. Education, she says, plays an important role in giving the Connelly kids other options. A number of her students have gone onto college, including one who is currently on scholarship at Bowdoin...
...Kirshner concentrated in astronomy as an undergraduate at Harvard, where part of his senior thesis won the Bowdoin prize for "useful and polite literature...
Visitors to Bates may also want to check out Bowdoin in Brunswick and Colby in Waterville...
...means a lot on big campuses that can't afford to spend hours getting to know applicants. Even at Bowdoin, hero of the anti-testing crowd, head of admissions Richard Steele has mixed feelings about other schools' eliminating the SAT requirement. "I'm not one who would recommend this for everyone," he says, noting that Bowdoin is now "highly encouraging" one growing group of hard-to-evaluate applicants, home schoolers, to submit their SATs. "It works for us because we're only dealing with 5,000 applications, vs. 20,000 at the big schools...