Bowdoin's campus tours are led by current students and last approximately one hour. Although we do not require reservations, the campus tour schedule can vary. We encourage you to review the complete schedule online and register in advance. The schedule is now available through August 2012.
Tours are generally offered:
Monday - Friday: 9:30 am, 11:30 am, and 1:30 pm
Saturday: 11:30 am
In May: 9:30 am, 1:30 pm on weekdays, and no Saturday tours
Register for a campus tour »
Led by an Admissions staff member, general information sessions provide a one-hour overview of Bowdoin College and the Bowdoin admissions process. Although we do not require reservations, we encourage you to review the complete schedule online and register in advance. The schedule is now available through August 2012.
Information sessions are generally offered:
Monday: 10:30 am
Tuesday - Friday: 2:30 pm
Register for a general information session »
A personal interview is strongly encouraged and is available to any student who plans to enroll (the following Fall) as either a first-year or transfer student. Interviews are designed as a give-and-take: the interviewer will guide the course of the conversation, but there'll be plenty of time for you to ask questions about Bowdoin not addressed in other materials.
Who will interview me on campus?
An admissions staff member or a Bowdoin senior, one of fourteen seniors carefully selected and trained for this purpose.
Schedule an interview
On-campus interviews are available throughout the year from the third week of May until early December
- Schedule an interview on campus with the Bowdoin Admissions Office. The interview schedule offers only what is presently available.
- To reschedule or cancel an interview, please call the Bowdoin Admissions Office at (207) 725-3100.
Information about off-campus interviews and high school visits »
Class Visits
Experience Bowdoin academics firsthand! Visit an introductory course in a discipline that you have never studied, witness student-faculty discussion in a small interdisciplinary seminar, or observe how our state-of-the-art science center enhances instruction. There are dozens of classes from which to choose in disciplines ranging from Environmental Studies to Africana Studies to Classics.
To arrange to visit a class at Bowdoin, please visit the Bearings website:
- Choose "Schedule of Courses"
- Find a class that interests you
- Contact the faculty member via email to request a visit
Faculty emails are available through Bowdoin's online directory.
Please plan to arrive at a class five minutes before it is scheduled to begin to introduce yourself to the instructor. Our faculty ask that you plan to stay for the entire class.
Overnight Visits
- Overnight visits are subject to limited student volunteer host availability on Sunday through Thursday nights.
- We do not offer overnight visits on Friday or Saturday.
- Overnights are for high school seniors and are for one night only.
- We require a minimum two-week notice.
- Overnight visitors are required to complete and return an information form (pdf) and a permission slip (pdf).
- To schedule an overnight visit, please call (207) 725-3119.
If you wish to attend a tour and an information session, you need only register for either the tour OR the information session, not both.
Those students scheduling on-campus interviews need only register for the interview.
