Applications down at Middlebury

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Carleton, Bowdoin are all damn near identical. Don’t get the ranking foolishness done here.

On the same level, yes. Identical, no. There are defining features of each of these colleges. It is wild to claim that Pomona in southern California is the same experience as Carleton in small town Minnesota is the same experience as Williams in rural Massachusetts.

Grinnell is every bit as good as any of them as well. The leaders of any one of those schools would agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Carleton, Bowdoin are all damn near identical. Don’t get the ranking foolishness done here.

On the same level, yes. Identical, no. There are defining features of each of these colleges. It is wild to claim that Pomona in southern California is the same experience as Carleton in small town Minnesota is the same experience as Williams in rural Massachusetts.

Grinnell is every bit as good as any of them as well. The leaders of any one of those schools would agree.

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There are a set of schools with average SAT scores of 1500 or above: Amherst, Bowdoin, CMC, Middlebury, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
And a group of schools with an average SAT of 1480/1490: Carleton, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Vassar, W&L

There is no quantifiable difference between any of these 14 schools and it is silly to try and rank them. They all have their own advantages, strengths and quirks. And they are all among the very top schools in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst and Williams are the go to LACs for the foreseeable future. They have the cache, prestige, ratings, and huge endowments. No schools will catch them. Middlebury is one of 20-25 schools that will fluctuate but there is a trend to schools in more urban areas and lots of full pay kids are going to SEC schools and BIG 10 schools.

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Amherst and Williams both have increasing applicants while Middlebury's is dropping

I looked at CDS data from Middlebury to get a sense of pre-pandemic numbers.

2019-2020 applications: 9754
2018-2019 applications: 9227

What was it this year?

11,831 applications

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Carleton, Bowdoin are all damn near identical. Don’t get the ranking foolishness done here.

You forgot Middlebury.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Carleton, Bowdoin are all damn near identical. Don’t get the ranking foolishness done here.

On the same level, yes. Identical, no. There are defining features of each of these colleges. It is wild to claim that Pomona in southern California is the same experience as Carleton in small town Minnesota is the same experience as Williams in rural Massachusetts.

This is not correct. Carleton

Grinnell is every bit as good as any of them as well. The leaders of any one of those schools would agree.

+1

There are a set of schools with average SAT scores of 1500 or above: Amherst, Bowdoin, CMC, Middlebury, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
And a group of schools with an average SAT of 1480/1490: Carleton, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Vassar, W&L

There is no quantifiable difference between any of these 14 schools and it is silly to try and rank them. They all have their own advantages, strengths and quirks. And they are all among the very top schools in the country.

[Anonymous]

How can you know this about the SAT scores when half the kids go TO?

[Anonymous]

Sad to see applications down at Middlebury. I really loved it when my kid was touring colleges and it made me wish I could go back to college! Great place for those who don’t mind rural Vermont.