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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you get good news?
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Nope. Admissions seems to be quite random there. Kids with higher scores/grades than my DC rejected, kids with lower/scores/grades accepted. Not clear what they were looking for. A little surprising to be denied, was expecting waitlist at worst. It's tough at the small schools. [/quote]

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I'm so sorry to hear this.  As a parent and former admissions staffer, I know how very hard it is to get this news.  Schools as selective as Middlebury will have so many extremely well-qualified applicants that the decisions can seem arbitrary.  I can assure you they're not, but anyone who has worked in admissions would also say they know when they send out those rejections that in many, many cases it truly is the school's loss.  For the SLACs especially, the numbers just make it impossible to take all the kids who would offer so much to the community.   I can also tell you that it is very likeley that a year from now your child will be thriving at some other school that will be fortunate to have him/her as a student.  [/quote]

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