Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College (ˈboʊdᵻn ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 35 majors and 40 minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia, Caltech, Dartmouth College, and the University of Maine. The college was a founding member of its athletic conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an athletic conference and inter-library exchange with Bates College and Colby College. Bowdoin has over 30 varsity teams, and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole. Between the years 1821 and 1921, Bowdoin operated a medical school called the Medical School of Maine. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin owns a coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a scientific field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts State Legislature and was later redirected under the jurisdiction of the Maine Legislature. It was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor. Bowdoin began to develop in the 1820s, a decade in which Maine became an independent state as a result of the Missouri Compromise and graduated U.S. President Franklin Pierce. The college also graduated two literary philosophers, the writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both of whom graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1825. Pierce and Hawthorne began an official militia company called the 'Bowdoin Cadets'. From its founding, Bowdoin was known to educate the sons of the political elite and "catered very largely to the wealthy conservative from the state of Maine.

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Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur de la ville de Brunswick dans le Maine aux États-Unis. Il a été fondé en 1794 et compte actuellement 1 962 d'étudiants. En 2009 Bowdoin atteint le sixième rang dans le U.S. News and World Report liberal arts colleges ranking. Deux importants auteurs ont fréquenté les bancs du collège, le romancier Nathaniel Hawthorne et le poète Henry Longfellow, qui y finirent leur cursus en 1825. En 2006, Newsweek décrit Bowdoin comme étant un « New Ivy », l'un des collèges et universités n'appartenant pas à l'Ivy League.

Need-blind admission

Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding whether to accept them. This approach typically results in a higher percentage of accepted students who require financial assistance and often necessitates that the institution has a substantial endowment or other funding sources to support the policy. Institutions which participated in an antitrust exemption granted by Congress were required by law to be need-blind, a requirement which remained in effect until September 30, 2022.

Bates College

Bates College est une université américaine d'arts libéraux à Lewiston dans le Maine. Il a été fondé par des hommes d'État abolitionnistes et établi avec des fonds du magnat industriel et du textile Benjamin Bates. Le collège est le collège mixte le plus ancien de Nouvelle-Angleterre, le troisième plus ancien du Maine et le premier à accorder un diplôme à une femme en Nouvelle-Angleterre. L'université a été fondée en 1855 par Oren Burbank Cheney, dans la vallée d'Androscoggin, à environ au nord de Boston.