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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  NP, but my child has expressed interest in both schools (dc is only a junior). I’m pretty familiar with Wellesley, and we will likely visit both this spring break. But for those who noted the extreme isolation of Williams, is it kind of the same as Middlebury, or more so? We drove through Middlebury’s campus on a summer trip to VT and recollect it being the campus and then basically a one-stop sign town, but the college itself was only an hour-ish from Burlington so the “isolation” didn’t jump out (maybe also because it wasn’t bitterly cold and dark like it is from Nov - April in that region).[/quote]

Both Williams and Middlebury are excellent colleges located in small similar-sized rural NE towns ... but Middlebury is much more isolated.    Middlebury is an hour's drive from fun Burlington (metro area pop 215K) - but that's it.   Everything else around Middlebury in western VT is just tiny cow towns of a couple of thousand people plus small struggling Rutland about 45 minutes in the other direction.  By comparison, Williams/Williamstown is just a few miles from North Adams (which effectively triples the immediate area's population and offerings) and in the developed Berkshires area with its myriad small cities, associated retail, and the huge array of cultural and dining offerings designed to serve vacationing Bostonians and NYers.   From Williams the nearest Walmart is a 15 minute drive, and the nearest Target a 25 minute drive -- compared to nearly an hour from Middlebury to get to either (in Burlington or in the case of Walmart in Rutland too)   And if a Williams student needs more than that, Albany NY (which may not be Paris but is a growing metro area with about five times the population of Burlington) is just an hour's drive away.   So I'd say, no, Williams isn't really as isolated - in fact or in feeling -- as Middlebury.      [/quote]

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