Stories about "Leigh Weisenburger"
During the winter months, the Bates Admission team gathered in Lindholm House to review the 5,300-plus applications for the Class of 2010. (Sarah Crosby/Bates College)
Quotes heard during admission decisions — and what they mean

Friday, April 8, 2016 8:00 am

In their deliberations, the Bates Admission deans seek to answer two overarching and linked questions: Is this student right for Bates? And is Bates right for this student?

The postman doesn't not right for the mailboxes in Chase Hall. (Sarah Crosby/Bates College)
Bates in the News: April 8, 2016

Thursday, April 7, 2016 1:45 pm

A Bates professor says public schools have a mass-incarceration mindset, plus Bates admission in TIME magazine and Bates mailboxes in The Boston Globe.

Janelle Lyford '13, admission tour guide, gives a midsummer tour of the Bates campus.
Students admitted to the Class of 2019 are the academically strongest, most diverse in Bates history

Friday, April 3, 2015 11:44 am

Bates College extended offers of admission to 1,208 students for the Class...

Leigh Weisenburger, dean of admission and financial aid. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.
Maine media quote Bates officials for stories on Supreme Court affirmative action case

Monday, October 22, 2012 3:21 pm

Bates officials react to the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin now being considered by the Supreme Court.

Free panel discussion Nov. 11 at Bates demystifies college search process

Friday, November 5, 2010 2:06 pm

Topics include "Interviewing Tips" and "Financial Aid Basics."