Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists. Bates College was one of the first colleges in the United States to be coeducational from establishment and is the oldest continuously operating coeducational institution in New England. As of 2015, Bates College has an acceptance rate of 17.8% and was listed as the nineteenth-best liberal arts college in the country in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Bates offers 35 departmental and interdisciplinary program majors and 25 secondary concentrations, and confers Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees. The college enrolls…