Middlebury

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Anonymous wrote:Very remote. If your kid likes restos forget it

Which of the top 11 LACs is not remote, other than Bernard perhaps.

Swarthmore. Wellesley.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This was not my experience. But my experience was 20 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:read the one stars here: https://www.niche.com/colleges/middlebury-college/reviews/?rating=Terrible

I don’t have a dog in the fight (not the OP) but there are 14 one-star reviews out of 500+ and they are from 2011-2014.

the college has had serious first amendment usdues. read wikipedia

Are you familiar with the first amendment? It says the GOVERNMENT cannot squash free speech. Private entities can censor whomever they want.

Ok, but that’s not a first amendment violation

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Very remote. If your kid likes restos forget it

Which of the top 11 LACs is not remote, other than Bernard perhaps.

Quite a few aren’t remote. Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Barnard and Claremont McKenna are not remote.

Nor is Carleton. The drive from Minneapolis has never taken us longer than 45 min. It is rural, but that’s not the same as remote. And Northfield was recently named a top 50 place to live by Money.

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Anonymous wrote:read the one stars here: https://www.niche.com/colleges/middlebury-college/reviews/?rating=Terrible

I don’t have a dog in the fight (not the OP) but there are 14 one-star reviews out of 500+ and they are from 2011-2014.

the college has had serious first amendment usdues. read wikipedia

[b]Are you familiar with the first amendment? It says the GOVERNMENT cannot squash free speech. Private entities can censor whomever they want.

Ok, but that’s not a first amendment violation

[/b]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.

NOt a good free speech campus. https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/middlebury-college

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Anonymous wrote:read the one stars here: https://www.niche.com/colleges/middlebury-college/reviews/?rating=Terrible

I don’t have a dog in the fight (not the OP) but there are 14 one-star reviews out of 500+ and they are from 2011-2014.

the college has had serious first amendment usdues. read wikipedia

Are you familiar with the first amendment? It says the GOVERNMENT cannot squash free speech. Private entities can censor whomever they want.

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.

Sure they are. But, the college had a bad incident with violence that injured a professor after a controversial speaker in 2017, so they canceled a speaker they thought might trigger a similar result shortly after. That was a while ago. Stop whipping up alarm.

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More than half of students get financial aid, and the average award is $61,000. So plenty of non-rich kids. But also a large percentage of top 1%.

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Anonymous wrote:Very remote. If your kid likes restos forget it

Which of the top 11 LACs is not remote, other than Bernard perhaps.

There is Amherst and Bowdoin remote, and then there's Middlebury and Dartmouth remote. New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern Maine are completely different beasts.

Which are more remote? I seriously don’t know.

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.

Middlebury has a population of 8,500. Two major grocery stores, fast food, and plenty of restaurants. Stop making it sound like there’s nothing around for miles.

https://experiencemiddlebury.com/dine/

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Anonymous wrote:Very remote. If your kid likes restos forget it

Which of the top 11 LACs is not remote, other than Bernard perhaps.

There is Amherst and Bowdoin remote, and then there's Middlebury and Dartmouth remote. New Hampshire, Vermont, and Northern Maine are completely different beasts.

Which are more remote? I seriously don’t know.

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.

Middlebury is 45 mins from Burlington. Just over two hours from Montreal.

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Great school. Granted I was there years ago but as an international student from a non-European country and plenty of pigmentation, I had many friends in the broader Middlebury community and neighboring towns.