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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Middlebury College has a significantly larger student population than Williams College. More students/faculty/administrators, etc. can make a school feel less isolated.  [/quote]

Middlebury may be a little larger, but isolated actually means "not near to other places" - both in the dictionary, and in the context of PP's inquiry.   Middlebury is indisputably more geographically isolated than Williams.

Also, the gap in size isn't that significant.   It's about 500-600 students (in total, not per year).   And Williams, despite having fewer students, in fact has a larger academic staff than Middlebury, per the Common Data Set.

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Middlebury College has over 2,600 undergrads while Williams College has about 2,000. Middlebury's student body is 30% greater than Williams College.

I understand the term isolated, but in this context  I think that the size of the undergraduate student bodies has an effect on the feeling of "isolation".

Maybe a more appropriate definition of "isolation" at either school is being a non-athlete.[/quote]

I am the poster who asked for clarification as to Williams “isolation” (mentioned several times on this thread) vs the feel at Middlebury. But yikes now new line of inquiry - pp, are you saying that non-athletes feel isolated at both colleges? That was not at all the image DC and I have of either college (nor Wellesley)- can you please expand? Thanks![/quote]

Middlebury College athletes have a term or nickname that they use to refer to non-athletes.

My impression is that athletes at Williams College and at many SLACs are the happiest students and that social divides exist at many SLACs between athletes and non-athletes.

SLACs are great for two sport athletes. Isolation is countered by travel for competitions and close camaraderie among teammates.[/quote]

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