Middlebury
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Anonymous
| Have heard a lot of over enrollment issues and difficult to get in required classses for major etc |
Anonymous
What about Williams, Grinnell, etc? |
Anonymous
Which are more remote? I seriously don’t know. |
Anonymous
the college has had serious first amendment usdues. read wikipedia |
Anonymous
Dartmouth and Middlebury are way more remote than the other two. Bowdoin is just about half an hour away from Portland, and while Amherst is out in western Mass, between the town of Amherst, the town of Northampton, and the five colleges there’s a decent amount going on out there. |
Anonymous
Quite a few aren’t remote. Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Barnard and Claremont McKenna are not remote. |
Anonymous
| The thing about remote colleges is that they don’t rely on the big city nearby. Lots of activities to do on campus. My DS went to Swarthmore and I would guess he went into Phila 1X/year. The bonus of Phila was a train station, MegaBus and airport access. You people of DCUM land are packed in like sardines and can’t imagine another way of life. |
Anonymous
Nor is Wesleyan. |
Anonymous
Was at Middlebury not long ago. You drive a long way on winding country roads past fields. Eventually you get to Middlebury. It doesn’t have a town exactly—perhaps a village. A couple restaurants that are not open every day. Almost nothing open the day we were there. We had to drive out again to get food. Williams is also extremely remote. Feels like the end of the earth. Amherst and Bowdoin have towns. Brunswick has multiple places to stay within walking distance, lots of restaurants, doughnut shop, a downtown strip, shopping centers a short drive away with big box stores. It feels much closer to civilization. |
Anonymous
Are you familiar with the first amendment? It says the GOVERNMENT cannot squash free speech. Private entities can censor whomever they want. |
Anonymous
You just described the benefits of not being on a remote campus. Easy access to a city and its services, air/train/bus travel being a huge one. Not a single person on here is saying schools need to be in bustling big cities. They’re saying that a town with some reliable restaurants and stores, as well as easy access to a bigger city can be really helpful. More to the point, OP mentioned concerns about remoteness. So all of these are responsive to that concern. Middlebury, like Williams, is and feels particularly remote. Some people want that. Some people don’t. |
Anonymous
If a couple means two, this is false. Yes, Middlebury is a small town and it's over 45 minutes to Burlington. There are also restaurants in Vergennes... But look at Google maps and search restaurants in Middlebury. There are more than a couple. |
Anonymous
I graduated 20 years ago. I'm a snowboarder and mountain biker (and I like hiking too) and it had the right programs for me. It's not for everyone, but for some people it's great. |
Anonymous
I am. Speakers at Middlebury aren't allowed to express their opinions. For $90K a year I want my kid to be educated as to all points of view, not just indoctrinated into the left. |
Anonymous
| Yes, I have a relative who recently graduated. A good skier who is progressive will fit in well. Plenty of great jobs are available to graduates, especially in NY finance. The only hesitancy would be a disproportionate amount of uber-wealthy kids there, and if you don't fall in that category, your kid may be an outsider, or you may feel pressure to try to keep up and struggle. |