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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No interest in any NESCAC school but imo Middlebury is in a decline from top 10 US News to current tie for 19. Add in application declines and financial deficits what else would one describe Middds current status. Lots of Middlebury grads and or parents are in denial. Amherst and Williams are so far above the rest of the pack. Bowdoin has some appeal but 90-95 k a year for the rest no thanks .[/quote]

Midd hater has entered the chat. It’s so crazy to me that seemingly so many folks want to drop in on threads about liberal arts colleges to either argue that they are all inferior to universities or to assert that only four are worth attending. If you’re telling me people think Wesleyan, Hamilton, and Middlebury are shit, god help Oberlin.  [/quote]
They made a reasonable argument. It's only LAC parents who act like all the schools are the exact same. It'd be like someone claiming Ohio State is the same as Harvard. It's okay that schools are different and some get worse over time. Middlebury does have financial issues, you can read about it from their strategic planning, student journalism, or on this forum. [/quote]

They didn't make a reasonable argument because it is just a constant flow of nonsense. They have posted this junk many times  before and some people have been pretty direct in batting them around and proving them foolish at pretty much every turn.

[b]Middlebury has a small but nagging deficit because of MIIS. It has no material effect on the finances of a school with a $1.6B endowment and an pristine balance sheet other than being a bit embarrassing. [/b]The incoming President has stated that he will address it within the year.[/quote]
Oh really?
[quote]The college announced a series of cost-saving measures on Wednesday, April 2 that aim to cut over $10 million from the annual budget through reducing staff and faculty benefits and permanently raising the student enrollment projection to 2,600–2,650. The college attributed the changes to 15 years of consistent deficits, culminating in the unexpectedly high $14.1 million shortfall this fiscal year, a large portion of which is due to lower enrollment at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS).[/quote][/quote]

Pretty much the entirety of the deficit is from MIIS and hopefully it will be divested.

The historical number on campus is 2550 (look it up, easy to find in the actual govt reports) so the population increase is quite small directly aligned with the new and larger dorm. Most people wish these schools would scale up a bit.  They raised over $100M last year and are at over 90% of their capital plan two years ahead of schedule so I'd say that their donor community is pretty solid and that AA rating says far more about their finances than your blithering.

Middlebury dodged a bullet when eitrher your kid (or yourself) didn't get in.[/quote]
Your point was great and then you decided to use the stupid “your kid didn’t get in” argument. Stop the snark, it’s making for nonsensical long winded discussions that aren’t needed or necessary.

Most LACs are getting bigger- it’s helpful for their footprint and it means they’ll likely get more applications.[/quote]

You are completely right…..this troll is just non stop and frankly exhausting.[/quote]

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