Middlebury, Conn College, Colby

[Anonymous]

Other than the Provost’s embarrassing grammar in that article, Midd seems great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than the Provost’s embarrassing grammar in that article, Midd seems great.

Someone with the last name “Provost” should not be in university administration.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this thread just to point out that Middlebury expects a class of 2750 in the fall, only 50 less than last fall’s over-enrollment debacle. Surprise, surprise: yet another year of over-enrollment. It’s the new normal. At least admissions isn’t pretending it was anything but intentional all these years anymore:

“The college has remained committed to matriculating the same number of first-year students each year, even when admitting fewer new students would have relieved the strain of having larger-than-usual junior and senior classes from the pandemic-related backlog. ‘We didn't want to penalize the [matriculating] classes of ’21, ’22 and ’23, because the other thing we could have done is just taken 100 less students and denied 100 less students access to a Middlebury education,’ Provost stated.”

https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2024/03/middlebury-returns-to-typical-enrollment-this-spring-with-plans-to-sell-inn-on-the-green-in-2025

I dunno. The article seems to suggest that things are under control and that the college can accommodate all students just fine next year.

[Anonymous]

DD accepted Colby and Bowdoin, WL at Middlebury and Williams, rejected Amherst. 34 ACT, 4.42w. What a crap shoot admissions is.

[Anonymous]

NP. Just weighing in to alert OP to watch out for the crazy anti-SLAC obsessives who have undoubtedly brigaded this thread already.

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Anonymous wrote:DD accepted Colby and Bowdoin, WL at Middlebury and Williams, rejected Amherst. 34 ACT, 4.42w. What a crap shoot admissions is.

Those are good outcomes. Going to Bowdoin?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA placing better than Midd? Laughable. You are probably from below the Mason-Dixon Line and clearly are out of your league. Let the big boys do the talking. You probably make under 300k.

Are you talking about Middlebury? The Vermont school with fewer than 5% Black students? The one for wealthy white kids in a state that is comprised of more than 92% white folks? Going to school there is not the way to get a stellar education. Insulated, yes.

Middlebury: a school that laughs at people who earn under 300k/ year.

We have a HHI income north of 300k, but thanks for that insight into the school’s culture. Hard pass.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bumping this thread just to point out that Middlebury expects a class of 2750 in the fall, only 50 less than last fall’s over-enrollment debacle. Surprise, surprise: yet another year of over-enrollment. It’s the new normal. At least admissions isn’t pretending it was anything but intentional all these years anymore:

“The college has remained committed to matriculating the same number of first-year students each year, even when admitting fewer new students would have relieved the strain of having larger-than-usual junior and senior classes from the pandemic-related backlog. ‘We didn't want to penalize the [matriculating] classes of ’21, ’22 and ’23, because the other thing we could have done is just taken 100 less students and denied 100 less students access to a Middlebury education,’ Provost stated.”

https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2024/03/middlebury-returns-to-typical-enrollment-this-spring-with-plans-to-sell-inn-on-the-green-in-2025

I dunno. The article seems to suggest that things are under control and that the college can accommodate all students just fine next year.

The article has numerous internal contradictions, but Middlebury is now getting through the worst of its budget crisis and settling into the new post-COVID, anti-study abroad and anti-foreign language era. They had enough of an endowment that it did not need to be at the expense of its own students for so many years running, though. Not out of the woods yet (which is why still over-enrolling by 200): Middlebury had an $8.9 million deficit last year. https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2024/02/trustees-talk-tuition-construction-finances-for-2023-2024

[Anonymous]

Midd, Colby, then CC

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA placing better than Midd? Laughable. You are probably from below the Mason-Dixon Line and clearly are out of your league. Let the big boys do the talking. You probably make under 300k.

Are you talking about Middlebury? The Vermont school with fewer than 5% Black students? The one for wealthy white kids in a state that is comprised of more than 92% white folks? Going to school there is not the way to get a stellar education. Insulated, yes.

Middlebury: a school that laughs at people who earn under 300k/ year.

We have a HHI income north of 300k, but thanks for that insight into the school’s culture. Hard pass.

Yeah, that’s smart. You should definitely make decisions about colleges based on patently false and biased claims people post on an anonymous discussion forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA placing better than Midd? Laughable. You are probably from below the Mason-Dixon Line and clearly are out of your league. Let the big boys do the talking. You probably make under 300k.

Are you talking about Middlebury? The Vermont school with fewer than 5% Black students? The one for wealthy white kids in a state that is comprised of more than 92% white folks? Going to school there is not the way to get a stellar education. Insulated, yes.

Middlebury: a school that laughs at people who earn under 300k/ year.

We have a HHI income north of 300k, but thanks for that insight into the school’s culture. Hard pass.

Yeah, that’s smart. You should definitely make decisions about colleges based on patently false and biased claims people post on an anonymous discussion forum.

It’s not like anyone on the tours and visits is going to show anything that makes the school look any different from its competitors. Btdt

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD accepted Colby and Bowdoin, WL at Middlebury and Williams, rejected Amherst. 34 ACT, 4.42w. What a crap shoot admissions is.

Those are good outcomes. Going to Bowdoin?

Bowdoin was our favorite NESCAC by a mile-you dodged a bullet by not getting to Amherst or Williams. Depressing campuses with grinder students.