Admissions
Admissions
Q&A: Marroquin discusses changes in enrollment following affirmative action ban
Data released by the College on Wednesday revealed the racial and financial makeup of the Class of 2028, the first to be affected by the Supreme Court’s ban on race-based affirmative action …
Admissions
Bearings in Brunswick welcomes over 300 admitted students to campus
Yesterday and today, the College welcomed a record number of admitted students to campus for Bearings in Brunswick, the flagship on-campus component of the Office of Admissions’s annual Bowdoin Bearings programming. Around 340 admitted students registered to attend Bearings in …
Editorial
Who makes Bowdoin special
As Bowdoin welcomes newly admitted students to campus for Bearings in Brunswick, it is showing off its best. The sunny quad is filled with endless tour groups passing through, and potential new students see banners left and right offering warm …
Admissions
Bowdoin admits 7 percent of applicants to Class of 2028, lowest rate ever in College history
Last Friday, the Office of Admissions released its final round of decisions for the Class of 2028, concluding the incoming first-year admissions process. With a total of just over 13,200 applicants, the acceptance rate continued to decrease. This year’s aggregate …
Admissions
New FAFSA form poses delays and technical difficulties for current students and applicants
Filling out the Free Application for Federal Aid (FAFSA) has always been a lot of work for students, but the form has become more troublesome following new challenges in this year’s rollout, including a delay in colleges receiving student FAFSA …
Admissions
Application numbers continue to climb for the Class of 2028
The College received just over 13,200 applications for the Class of 2028—the highest application numbers in the College’s history and a continuation of the rise in applications over the past two years.
Applications increased by about 20 percent, surpassing the …
Admissions
Dean of Admissions Claudia Marroquin on the decline of male applicants to Bowdoin
Senior Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Student Aid Claudia Marroquin ’06, who leads the Bowdoin admissions office, said one topic frequently comes up when she talks with her counterparts at other liberal arts colleges: Why aren’t more men …
Admissions
BSU hosts panel on Bowdoin, diversity efforts in reaction to SFFA v. Harvard
On a Wednesday night panel hosted by the Black Student Union (BSU), Claudia Marroquin, the senior vice president and dean of admissions and student aid, discussed some of the ways that the admissions office is trying to build a diverse …
Admissions
The College hosts admitted students for annual Bowdoin Bearings event
The Office of Admissions hosted its annual Bowdoin Bearings program this Thursday and Friday to welcome the 850 students admitted to the Class of 2027 to campus. After a two-year hiatus from hosting admitted students overnight on campus due to …