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Colby College
Colby College, founded in 1813, is part of the "CBB" consortium of elite Maine liberal arts colleges alongside Bowdoin and Bates, and the college's substantial recent investment in downtown Waterville, Maine's revitalization has made Colby a significant direct economic and civic partner to its host city in ways unusual for a residential liberal arts college. The college's Environmental Studies program benefits from Colby's rural Maine setting and its dedicated 714-acre biological preserve, giving students direct access to substantial protected natural land for hands-on ecological research and field study. Colby's need-blind admission and full-need financial aid policy, combined with its steadily rising academic selectivity over the past two decades, have moved the college into consistent placement among the very top liberal arts colleges nationally. The college's combination of genuine academic rigor, its distinctive direct investment in its host city's downtown revitalization, and its substantial on-campus nature preserve has made Colby one of the more institutionally distinctive top liberal arts colleges in New England.
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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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