Bowdoin College Top Questions

There is definitely a large contingent of preppy, athletic, white, New Englanders on campus, but I wouldn't say that this stereotype negatively effects the student body as a whole.

For the most part, except Bowdoin is a lot more diverse than some might realize.

To some degree but not in a negative sense. Its certainly more diverse than people think and not everyone parties or is granola.

Sometimes, but this is not all encompassing.

Yes

kind of- I've met people here who are richer than anyone I knew before coming to college

While there is certainly a lot of diversity at Bowdoin, I have found many of these stereotypes to be generally true.

Somewhat...

partially

Partly. Coming from a prep school myself, Bowdoin seems less preppy to than high school. At the same time, there are a lot of private school kids here, but I think that is probably more a phenomena of highly selective colleges everywhere than something specifc to Bowdoin. As for alcohol, Bowdoin students do drink a lot, and some of us even pride ourselves on our capacities. That said, some major campus organizations and scenes don't involve any drinking. The best example is probably the outing club, which includes a huge portion of the campus, but doesn't condone (or even allow) drinking on any events. No one has a problem with this either because the culture of the outing club is pretty alcohol free in the first place.