Applications down at Middlebury

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

The troll has never heard of those places. When you are living in your mom's single wide in an exurb of Des Moines, firms like that don't come up in conversation.

Are you a typical Middlebury student and/or grad? Based on your condescending post, I'd rather work in a business with the person from Des Moines than a firm that would hire you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

You might want to note that the originator of this thread most definitely isn’t a booster. They started this thread after getting batted around on a different thread. They are consistently create some sort of negative thread every few weeks. They have issues.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Grinnell is B-tier at best and has to bribe students with excessive merit aid to commit. Nowhere near the same ballpark.

That is nonsense. Don’t act like the Middlebury hater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

Had less of an impact on your chances of getting any job at Goldman than you think it does
-CMC parent

I dont really understand this comment. CMC has great job placement in this area as does Midd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

So Impreasive!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

Had less of an impact on your chances of getting any job at Goldman than you think it does
-CMC parent

I dont really understand this comment. CMC has great job placement in this area as does Midd.

And it has little do with your alum being the president of the company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

The troll has never heard of those places. When you are living in your mom's single wide in an exurb of Des Moines, firms like that don't come up in conversation.

Are you a typical Middlebury student and/or grad? Based on your condescending post, I'd rather work in a business with the person from Des Moines than a firm that would hire you.

Other than a few friends who went there and a few kids I vaguely know who are there now, I have no affiliation. But I have zero tolerance for people who come here to ignorantly bash other schools, particularly when they clearly have no idea what they are talking about. I am all for presenting negative facts in a constructive way as honesty is important and nothing is perfect, but these low class ignoramuses are just too much.

I'm not sure what they get out of it. Unfortunately I think there is a growing group of people whose sole joy in life is making others unhappy. Which is truly sad.

I know there is some content moderation here and I wish the mods would delete more of these terrible posts. They detract from what is otherwise often a useful message board.

But I digress.

[Anonymous]

What sets this site apart from others is the ability to remain anonymous. What are the chances that 80% of the 12 pages of posts on this thread were written by the same half dozen people? Very high. You don’t see people acting like this on CC because you can’t hide behind anonymity. MUCH more useful info. Everyone should take what’s said here with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What sets this site apart from others is the ability to remain anonymous. What are the chances that 80% of the 12 pages of posts on this thread were written by the same half dozen people? Very high. You don’t see people acting like this on CC because you can’t hide behind anonymity. MUCH more useful info. Everyone should take what’s said here with a grain of salt.

Agreed. I am on other similar sites on different topics. Everyone has a user name. So you are completely anonymous, but if the same person is posting over and over, it is obvious. And if someone develops a reputation for posting garbage, you can more easily ignore them (and if someone routinely posts useful information, you can pay more attention to them!). And the moderators can cancel them, though they can obviously easily sign up with another name if they care that much.

[Anonymous]

Five days later, do we still have people claiming that Middlebury is a bad school with bad outcomes that no one has ever heard of? C’mon man. John Q. Public maybe hasn’t heard of Middlebury but they probably haven’t heard of Rice, Wash. U, Carnegie Mellon, or anything that isnt HYP or Michigan, either. This criticism has always struck me as very silly. If an HR person doesn’t know what Middlebury is, they are bad at their job. I’ve been in an attorney hiring role for judicial clerks, big law, and the government and can assure you in those environments people know the value of SLACs. Even poor Middlebury and Grinnell - two of the wealthiest and most selective schools in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Five days later, do we still have people claiming that Middlebury is a bad school with bad outcomes that no one has ever heard of? C’mon man. John Q. Public maybe hasn’t heard of Middlebury but they probably haven’t heard of Rice, Wash. U, Carnegie Mellon, or anything that isnt HYP or Michigan, either. This criticism has always struck me as very silly. If an HR person doesn’t know what Middlebury is, they are bad at their job. I’ve been in an attorney hiring role for judicial clerks, big law, and the government and can assure you in those environments people know the value of SLACs. Even poor Middlebury and Grinnell - two of the wealthiest and most selective schools in America.

When I first saw this thread it had not hit page 2 and I figured it would only make it 2 pages.

What has happened is really flabbergasting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Five days later, do we still have people claiming that Middlebury is a bad school with bad outcomes that no one has ever heard of? C’mon man. John Q. Public maybe hasn’t heard of Middlebury but they probably haven’t heard of Rice, Wash. U, Carnegie Mellon, or anything that isnt HYP or Michigan, either. This criticism has always struck me as very silly. If an HR person doesn’t know what Middlebury is, they are bad at their job. I’ve been in an attorney hiring role for judicial clerks, big law, and the government and can assure you in those environments people know the value of SLACs. Even poor Middlebury and Grinnell - two of the wealthiest and most selective schools in America.

Are you the same person every day. Every time I come back to this thread, you are posting nearly the same thing OVER AND OVER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

The troll has never heard of those places. When you are living in your mom's single wide in an exurb of Des Moines, firms like that don't come up in conversation.

Are you a typical Middlebury student and/or grad? Based on your condescending post, I'd rather work in a business with the person from Des Moines than a firm that would hire you.

Other than a few friends who went there and a few kids I vaguely know who are there now, I have no affiliation. But I have zero tolerance for people who come here to ignorantly bash other schools, particularly when they clearly have no idea what they are talking about. I am all for presenting negative facts in a constructive way as honesty is important and nothing is perfect, but these low class ignoramuses are just too much.

I'm not sure what they get out of it. Unfortunately I think there is a growing group of people whose sole joy in life is making others unhappy. Which is truly sad.

I know there is some content moderation here and I wish the mods would delete more of these terrible posts. They detract from what is otherwise often a useful message board.

But I digress.

PP here. Ok. Thank you for sharing, and I agree the school bashing is over the top. As an aducator, I don't like put-foens of those who live in rural and/or more modest or impoverished areas.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Five days later, do we still have people claiming that Middlebury is a bad school with bad outcomes that no one has ever heard of? C’mon man. John Q. Public maybe hasn’t heard of Middlebury but they probably haven’t heard of Rice, Wash. U, Carnegie Mellon, or anything that isnt HYP or Michigan, either. This criticism has always struck me as very silly. If an HR person doesn’t know what Middlebury is, they are bad at their job. I’ve been in an attorney hiring role for judicial clerks, big law, and the government and can assure you in those environments people know the value of SLACs. Even poor Middlebury and Grinnell - two of the wealthiest and most selective schools in America.

Are you the same person every day. Every time I come back to this thread, you are posting nearly the same thing OVER AND OVER.

Well, I do take offense at the petty slights people on the board levy against SLACs and/or SLACs that aren’t WASP. I see SLAC “boosters” accused of snobbery and vindictiveness but IMO it is in response to many loud voices on this board who think SLACs are the refuge of the coddled, wealthy, sub-par student. To be honest, it’s these type of distinctions that stand out to me as “striver-like” in tone. Make if that what you will. Anyway, I’m glad my reasonable perspective is resonating with you! Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Five days later, do we still have people claiming that Middlebury is a bad school with bad outcomes that no one has ever heard of? C’mon man. John Q. Public maybe hasn’t heard of Middlebury but they probably haven’t heard of Rice, Wash. U, Carnegie Mellon, or anything that isnt HYP or Michigan, either. This criticism has always struck me as very silly. If an HR person doesn’t know what Middlebury is, they are bad at their job. I’ve been in an attorney hiring role for judicial clerks, big law, and the government and can assure you in those environments people know the value of SLACs. Even poor Middlebury and Grinnell - two of the wealthiest and most selective schools in America.

Are you the same person every day. Every time I come back to this thread, you are posting nearly the same thing OVER AND OVER.

Well, I do take offense at the petty slights people on the board levy against SLACs and/or SLACs that aren’t WASP. I see SLAC “boosters” accused of snobbery and vindictiveness but IMO it is in response to many loud voices on this board who think SLACs are the refuge of the coddled, wealthy, sub-par student. To be honest, it’s these type of distinctions that stand out to me as “striver-like” in tone. Make if that what you will. Anyway, I’m glad my reasonable perspective is resonating with you! Thanks.

You don’t sound reasonable to me. Merely an obsessive bloviator. Let it go.