Middlebury releases Class of 2030 admissions info

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Anonymous wrote:Colby is more desirable now.

Is it? Based on what? My kid toured both and liked both, but Midd rose to the top and was his ED choice. Midd's programs in his areas of interest, alum network in his field of interest, gorgeous location, skiing, nature, the cute walkable little town, the yummy food, the investments in its campus, including amazing new dorm, performing arts venue, athletics.... all of this made Midd more desirable than Colby.

What exactly do you think makes Colby more desirable than Midd?

I’m on your side but this is pretty poor reasoning. Colby has DavisConnects and a strong alumni backing, a new dorm, new performing arts venue, new art studios and centers in their town, pretty much the best D3 athletic center in the country, and soon a new science complex and innovation center. They seem pretty even, if anything.

You think my kid's reasoning is poor, lol? Well he's happy. Also Midd has a stronger reputation. Sorry, but it just does. Colby isn't helping itself with its admission games and lack of candor.

The points you brought up don’t make sense when everything you brought up is also relevant to Colby and some things are actually better at Colby than Middlebury. So yes, your reasoning is shit. Get over it and realize that you could’ve made a better defense.

lol you really have an axe to grind. my kid liked midd much better than colby. the question is why that triggers you so much.

I said I agreed with you. You took it offensive and then made crap points following.

sorry it triggers you so much that kids choose midd over colby. i wonder why.

It doesn’t. You seem triggered that you got any pushback because your points didn’t make sense.

they were not my points, they were my kid's - who chose Midd over Colby. So in your worldview no one should do that or if they do it does not make sense? You are too funny.
So in your mind

Let’s slow it. You said that Middlebury had these things that made it better than Colby. I said that Colby has all the things you said and then some. So what’s the big deal?

These were the things that made my kid choose Midd over Colby. I have no idea why this is a such a big deal to you, and why you are so hung up on a kid choosing Midd over Colby. It felt like a very obvious pick to me.

I did like Colby too, but the endless weird booster on here is a big turn off. you're not doing the school any favors.

Not a booster because you disagree. Again I already understand Midd to be better than Colby, but your reasonings all applied to Colby so you decided to attack me.

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Anonymous wrote:Only 33%!!! of enrolled freshman submitted an SAT to Middlebury, 212 students. Of those who submitted, fewer than 15% scored above 1560.

So out of 634 enrolled freshman, only 31 students had a high SAT. Those high scorers are like a unicorn!!!!!!

Since Middlebury draws from private schools, safe to say they aren't drawing their best and brightest.

how many submitted ACT? A lot of kids submit one or the other.

I wonder how many schools have more than 15% who score above 1560. That's a really high bar to judge a school on. You think a "high" SAT is only over 1560?!

What is your beef with Midd? You're just making up ridiculous stuff to try to make this school look bad. Why?

Middlebury DOESN'T have 15% of its enrolled freshmen scoring that high. Fewer than 15% of those who SUBMITTED SAT scores scored higher. More than 400 students didn't submit an SAT.

The percentage of 1560+ scorers at Middlebury is less than 5%. A big difference.

As for 1560, most studies show that it is the point at which most schools bucket SATs into the highest bucket, which according to Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, etc. those students are much, much more likely to be admitted. It is intuitively a score that separates academic wheat from chaff.

Where did you come up with that number?

Different poster. Previous poster, where are you getting your 1560 number from? Me think you're pulling it out of your a$$.

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For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

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Anonymous wrote:2,000 students offered admission to the Class of 2030 and 2030.5 from a pool of 11,458 applicants, for an admit rate of 17 percent.

They hail from dozens of countries, with the largest numbers coming from China, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and France. Students from all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Armed Forces Pacific, are represented, with New York leading the way with 252 applicants, followed by Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Vermont.

Among those offered admission during the first and second rounds of the early-decision cycles, 494 students have enrolled. The expected total enrollment for first-years is 640 for September 2026 and 115 for February 2027.

Nobody's really into schools in Vermont.

Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:2,000 students offered admission to the Class of 2030 and 2030.5 from a pool of 11,458 applicants, for an admit rate of 17 percent.

They hail from dozens of countries, with the largest numbers coming from China, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and France. Students from all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Armed Forces Pacific, are represented, with New York leading the way with 252 applicants, followed by Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Vermont.

Among those offered admission during the first and second rounds of the early-decision cycles, 494 students have enrolled. The expected total enrollment for first-years is 640 for September 2026 and 115 for February 2027.

Nobody's really into schools in Vermont.

Sorry.

Pretty sure that the post that you responded to proves you wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

Interesting. I looked it up and here's the full list of top 50 "smartest" student colleges. Note: it's from 2015, I guess Middlebury just fell outside the top 50, and is at 51.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-smartest-colleges-america-180900823.html

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Anonymous wrote:For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

Interesting. I looked it up and here's the full list of top 50 "smartest" student colleges. Note: it's from 2015, I guess Middlebury just fell outside the top 50, and is at 51.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-smartest-colleges-america-180900823.html

Good list. Just a reminder to probably take out Claremont McKenna (which was busted by USNews for falsifying its SAT scores around that time to move up the rankings).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

Interesting. I looked it up and here's the full list of top 50 "smartest" student colleges. Note: it's from 2015, I guess Middlebury just fell outside the top 50, and is at 51.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-smartest-colleges-america-180900823.html

If you compare the most recent CDS, you'll see that Middlebury's standardized test scores are very similar to those of schools like Bowdoin.

2025-26 CDS
Bowdoin:
34.76% submitting SAT, 17.28% submitting ACT
SAT 25/50/75: 1470-1510-1540
ACT: 33-34-35

Middlebury:
33% submitting SAT, 16% submitting ACT
SAT 25/50/75: 1460-1500-1530
ACT: 33-34-35

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Anonymous wrote:For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

Interesting. I looked it up and here's the full list of top 50 "smartest" student colleges. Note: it's from 2015, I guess Middlebury just fell outside the top 50, and is at 51.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-smartest-colleges-america-180900823.html

If you compare the most recent CDS, you'll see that Middlebury's standardized test scores are very similar to those of schools like Bowdoin.

2025-26 CDS
Bowdoin:
34.76% submitting SAT, 17.28% submitting ACT
SAT 25/50/75: 1470-1510-1540
ACT: 33-34-35

Middlebury:
33% submitting SAT, 16% submitting ACT
SAT 25/50/75: 1460-1500-1530
ACT: 33-34-35

Based on the most recently available IPEDS information, Middlebury's SAT profile isn't quite as robust as that of Colby, however.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

Interesting. I looked it up and here's the full list of top 50 "smartest" student colleges. Note: it's from 2015, I guess Middlebury just fell outside the top 50, and is at 51.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-smartest-colleges-america-180900823.html

If you compare the most recent CDS, you'll see that Middlebury's standardized test scores are very similar to those of schools like Bowdoin.

2025-26 CDS
Bowdoin:
34.76% submitting SAT, 17.28% submitting ACT
SAT 25/50/75: 1470-1510-1540
ACT: 33-34-35

Middlebury:
33% submitting SAT, 16% submitting ACT
SAT 25/50/75: 1460-1500-1530
ACT: 33-34-35

Based on the most recently available IPEDS information, Middlebury's SAT profile isn't quite as robust as that of Colby, however.

This can be said mostly because Colby's SAT reporting rate is 44% greater than Middlebury's.

[Anonymous]

My kid got into both Middlebury and Colby, and decided "no" to both (and not for an "ivy" lol...) I think she liked the idea of these kinds of schools more than reality. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a small group of kids who mostly came from similar backgrounds.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into both Middlebury and Colby, and decided "no" to both (and not for an "ivy" lol...) I think she liked the idea of these kinds of schools more than reality. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a small group of kids who mostly came from similar backgrounds.

Maybe but probably not.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into both Middlebury and Colby, and decided "no" to both (and not for an "ivy" lol...) I think she liked the idea of these kinds of schools more than reality. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a small group of kids who mostly came from similar backgrounds.

100% this was true for my son too. He loved the idea and the pretty campus. But as reality set in for 3-4 years on a small, rural campus set in, DS instead chose a medium size school nearer to civilization instead (something like BC, Tufts, Northwestern, Rice).

But these pretty, rural LACs have their appeal for those who want it.

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Anonymous wrote:Only 33%!!! of enrolled freshman submitted an SAT to Middlebury, 212 students. Of those who submitted, fewer than 15% scored above 1560.

So out of 634 enrolled freshman, only 31 students had a high SAT. Those high scorers are like a unicorn!!!!!!

Since Middlebury draws from private schools, safe to say they aren't drawing their best and brightest.

how many submitted ACT? A lot of kids submit one or the other.

I wonder how many schools have more than 15% who score above 1560. That's a really high bar to judge a school on. You think a "high" SAT is only over 1560?!

What is your beef with Midd? You're just making up ridiculous stuff to try to make this school look bad. Why?

Middlebury DOESN'T have 15% of its enrolled freshmen scoring that high. Fewer than 15% of those who SUBMITTED SAT scores scored higher. More than 400 students didn't submit an SAT.

The percentage of 1560+ scorers at Middlebury is less than 5%. A big difference.

As for 1560, most studies show that it is the point at which most schools bucket SATs into the highest bucket, which according to Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, etc. those students are much, much more likely to be admitted. It is intuitively a score that separates academic wheat from chaff.

1560 is the 75% percentile for Yale. So it's ridiculous to say only a score above that is high.

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Anonymous wrote:For those interested in semi-historical information, Middlebury placed 51st nationally by standardized scoring at a time when standardized scoring was a more prominent aspect of college admission:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-610-smartest-colleges-in-america-2015-9

Interesting. I looked it up and here's the full list of top 50 "smartest" student colleges. Note: it's from 2015, I guess Middlebury just fell outside the top 50, and is at 51.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/50-smartest-colleges-america-180900823.html

Good list. Just a reminder to probably take out Claremont McKenna (which was busted by USNews for falsifying its SAT scores around that time to move up the rankings).

this list is from 2015. My kid who is going to college was in early elem school then.