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Bates College
Bates College, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, was one of the first colleges in the country to admit students without regard to race, gender, or religious affiliation from its very founding, reflecting the college's origins directly tied to the abolitionist movement in pre-Civil War New England. The college's distinctive short winter term, running for roughly a month between its fall and spring semesters, lets students pursue a single focused, often unconventional course or independent project, similar in spirit to the January-term calendars several other elite liberal arts colleges maintain. Bates does not require standardized test scores for admission, one of the earliest liberal arts colleges to adopt a test-optional policy, reflecting the college's continued institutional emphasis on holistic evaluation over standardized measures alone. The college's combination of its genuine founding-era commitment to inclusive admission, its distinctive short winter term, and its early adoption of test-optional admissions has made Bates one of the most institutionally progressive of the elite New England liberal arts colleges.
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College of the Atlantic
College of the Atlantic, founded in 1969, offers only a single undergraduate degree — human ecology — with every student's coursework built around that unified interdisciplinary framework examining the relationship between humans and their environment, an academic structure unlike that of virtually any other American college. The college's tiny size, fewer than 400 students, and its coastal Bar Harbor, Maine campus adjacent to Acadia National Park give students direct access to significant protected natural land for environmental research and fieldwork. College of the Atlantic became the first carbon-neutral college campus in the United States, reflecting the school's institutional commitment to environmental sustainability as a lived practice rather than solely an academic subject of study. The college's singular focus on human ecology, its remarkably small size, and its direct coastal Maine wilderness setting have made it one of the most distinctive environmentally focused colleges in the country, drawing students specifically committed to that particular interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies.
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