Bowdoin College Top Questions

That it's filled with elite prep school jocks. Also, there is a reputation for a big hippie crowd. Another stereotype is that we have the work hard, play hard ethic.

That Bowdoin is a big hippie school where everyone eats granola and skis in Maine.

I think Bowdoin students are typically pictured as rich, preppy, uptight, hardworking, and competitive people hailing predominantly from Massachussetts with no other drive but to get into that elite grad. school, medical school, etc.

students are categorized as either very preppy, jocks, or "crunchy." bowdoin is known to be a very white, heterosexual, privileged campus. students work hard during the week and are serious about their classes/work, but party hard on the weekend.

That Bowdoin students are earthy and all about peace and love. Also that Bowdoin students are extremely preppy.

That we're preppy, wealthy overachievers. Although preppy kind of slides into granola/crunchy territory, which is also a popular stereotype.

that bowdoin is only place that accepts new englanders(who are white) when in fact the school is much more diverse than that.

That the girls are ugly Everyone plays a varsity sport The student body is primarily from New England.

very preppy, a continuation of new england boarding schools, strong academics, good facilities,

white, preppy new-england prep school educated, from just outside of boston, athletic, cliquey