Bowdoin Academy

Bowdoin Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1794. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,805, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 207 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Bowdoin College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 4. Its charge and fees are $48,212 (2015-16).
Bowdoin Academy is amid in the littoral New England boondocks of Brunswick, Maine. The Bowdoin Polar Bears attempt in 31 varsity sports in the NCAA Division III New England Baby Academy Athletic Conference. Bowdoin has about 100 apprentice organizations. One of the better and a lot of alive groups is the Outing Club, which offers 100 excursions anniversary year. Peucinian Society, founded in 1805, is one of the oldest arcane and bookish societies in the country, with alumni including artist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Bowdoin abolished fraternities in 1997 and replaced them with a arrangement of college-owned amusing houses. Freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus and are assigned to a academy abode that provides residential amusing activities.
Bowdoin was a men’s academy until 1971, if the academy accepted its aboriginal changeable students. It was aswell one of the aboriginal careful schools to accomplish the SAT and ACT alternative on its appliance in 1969. Added than bisected of Bowdoin acceptance abstraction away for a division through added than 100 affiliated bookish programs. Notable alumni cover above Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Melville Weston Fuller, columnist Nathaniel Hawthorne, above U.S. President Franklin Pierce, and animal female and gender researcher Alfred Kinsey—subject of the 2004 biographical blur abode his surname.
School mission and different qualities (as provided by the school):
A advanced arts apprenticeship at Bowdoin is not about getting baby and safe; it is about accepting the abutment to yield hasty risks. That agency caring added about the questions than giving the appropriate answers, advertent you are acceptable at something you did not anticipate was your backbone and authoritative access area none arise to exist. Bowdoin's class offers a adventurous adapt for advanced apprenticeship advised to affect acceptance to become apple citizens with astute acuteness to the amusing and accustomed world. Its interdisciplinary focus encourages acceptance to accomplish access a part of subjects, ascertain disciplines that accelerate their imaginations and advance agog abilities for acclamation the challenges of a alteration world. Bowdoin acceptance accomplish at the accomplished levels but aswell advance counterbalanced lives. Campus visitors frequently animadversion on how affable anybody at Bowdoin is to visitors and how blessed anybody seems at Bowdoin. This consequence is accurate by top retention, graduation and alumni giving rates. The affiliation to abode is awfully important to the educational, social, account and recreational opportunities at Bowdoin. Maine is abundant added than the College's address. A Bowdoin apprenticeship is best summed up by "The Action of the College": To be at home in all acreage and all ages; To calculation Nature a accustomed acquaintance, And Art an affectionate friend; To accretion a accepted for the acknowledgment of others' work, And the criticism of your own; To backpack the keys of the world's library in your pocket, And feel its assets abaft you in whatever assignment you undertake; To accomplish hosts of accompany ... Who are to be leaders in all walks of life; To lose yourself in acceptable enthusiasms, And abet with others for accepted ends. This is the action of the academy for the best four years of your life. --Adapted from the aboriginal "Offer of the College" by William DeWitt Hyde, President of Bowdoin College, 1885-1917.