Admissions

We know that you'll have questions that can't be answered just by our website or literature. After all, ultimately, you want to know what it's like to BE here. Learning about Bowdoin from a student's perspective can be valuable. Here's an opportunity to have ongoing contact with a current Bowdoin student, one who has first-hand insight and can tell you about the professors, the courseload, campus housing, the social life, the ins-and-outs. Krista Bahm '11 and Jordan Francke '13 are available via email to answer all of your questions.

Email Krista Bahm '11 and Jordan Francke '13 at askastudent@bowdoin.edu

Krista Bahm '11

Hometown: Berkeley, California
Major: Economics and Environmental Studies coordinate major
Minor: Biology
Campus Activities: Campus Activities Board and co-chair of the Campus Wides Committee, working to plan concerts, comedy shows, and cultural events for the campus; alternative spring break trips to Guatemala and Phoenix, Louisiana; tutor at a local junior high; House Historian in one of the College Houses; use the ceramics studio at the Craft Center.
Favorite Things about Bowdoin: How students work, live, eat and "play" all within a small campus radius, allowing for interactions at all times of the day; seeing familiar and friendly faces as I walk across campus; small classes, which allow for significant professor-student interaction.

Jordan Francke '13

Hometown: Lee, Maine/Henderson, KY
Intended Major: English
Intended Minor: Psychology (or possibly Spanish or Neuroscience)
Campus Activities: Bowdoin Student Government; a tour guide and volunteer for the Admissions Office; a Residential Life proctor in a dorm; the Random Acts of Kindness club.
Favorite Things about Bowdoin: Bowdoin's friendly and tight-knit community, the intellectual and academic passion here, and its incredible degree of diversity. And of course, its exquisite cuisine.