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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Studious and collaborative, Bowdoin and Haverford.  [/quote]

I'd look at Amherst, Bowdoin, Davidson, Hamilton, Carleton plus Kenyon, Macalester and Lafayette for more likely admits (to have a full list). Middlebury was on my kids's list but they are having some money issues due to Monterey campus and have over admitted their incoming classes recently. Makes it harder to get classes according to our tour guide who was pre-med, so that fell off his list.
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None of what you said about Middlebury is true except for the fact that they are discussing what to do about MIIS. Baucomb has committed to addressing MIIS within a year and likely sooner. [b]I am sorry that your kid didn't get into Midd[/b] but if you persist I will bat you around as always.[/quote]

Yes, they are having money issues at Middlebury. It's not a secret when you can easily find the letter from the leaders of the school outlining the budget shortfall. To those who want to know the reality, you can easily search for the letter the Interim President, CFO and Provost of Middlebury sent to faculty, staff and students on April 2, 2025 and read it for yourself. Try this phrase for your search engine: "Middlebury The Budget, Our Path Forward". The letter specifically addresses that since the pandemic they have decided to enroll more students and are looking at faculty cutbacks and the enrollment issues at the Monterey Institute.

Notable quotes:

"...we're projecting a $14.1 million deficit this fiscal year, notably higher than our $8.9 million projection from October."
"Our deficits are continually an outlier among our NESCAC peers, which all operate profitably..."

And the Editorial Board of the Campus Newspaper called for Middlebury to ditch the Monterey Campus on April 17, 2025.[/quote]

Look, you're an idiot. We've been down this path before. Middlebury has no financial issues.

Middlebury has a small ongoing deficit, it is not a problem as much as it is an embarrassment. Patton wouldn't address it but the new President is because he is smart and doesn't want to become the owner of MIIS issues.

Middlebury overenrolled for a single year at the height of Covid  and let the over enrollment play out over the following four years rather than reduce access. Middlebury is planning on expanding enrollment by 50-70 students in conjunction with their new dorm which is....50 beds larger.

Middlebury has a $1.6B endowment and they just got relief from paying the tax that they have had to cover the past few years.

Middlebury has a 'AA' credit rating in the same 'high investment grade' bucket as it NESCAC peers and higher than companies such as Nvidia.

You pop up on thread after thread with the same blather. In other threads there were a couple of others who also had no time for your nonsense. Move along Karen your lies are tiring.[/quote]

Lol we’ve explained to you multiple times that you are taking a view that the school’s own administrators don’t take. Maybe ask yourself why you’re so dug in on this. And maybe contact the school and ask them to explain it to you in the simplest terms possible.
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It’s the same nonsense every time that you float into a useful discussion. Actually read the articles that you post, they don’t say what you wish they did.

lol at the iPeds data, the numbers don’t lie on enrollment.

And after you do that get help. You have some serious issues.[/quote]

? As I said, I’m not the same poster as whoever else you’re referring to. I don’t know what you’re talking about with iPeds data.

I know what you haven’t read, though, which is this: https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/announcements/2025/04/budget-our-way-forward#the-latest-figures

But everyone else can read it and draw the clear conclusions that the school’s own leadership clearly wants them to draw.[/quote]
There are at least half a dozen posters who mention — as anyone would — Midd’s problems with over-enrollment the last 5 years (paying kids 10k not to attend), its budget issues, it’s not being forthright year after year about the intentionality behind the over-enrollment etc., its move to accept 70% of the class ED to change the proportion of full pay students, its sending kids for a first semester in Copenhagen, having kids live off campus at Bread Loaf, kids staying at the Inn at the Green, the huge profit loss of Midd schools abroad — let alone Monterey.

But the one, lone pro-Midd troll refuses to acknowledge any of this (unlike admissions officers, tour guides, or the Midd faculty and administration themselves), insults everyone, and goes right on trolling — thereby giving even more attention to these issues (unless the troll is some kind of Colby double agent and the point was to undermine Midd all along).

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Now you are getting desperate because people are onto you.

Just stop, you are just embarrassing yourself.[/quote]

If you are the gaslighting troll, it seems that you are the one embarrassing yourself.

The leadership at Middlebury is being transparent with the school’s ongoing deficit problem. No one is saying the school is going under, but there are adjustments which may impact the student experience.

It’s also true that they are admitting more in the ED round. So if you are a senior who really wants Middlebury, ED might be the best choice for you.[/quote]

OP here, while I appreciate the suggestions of all schools for consideration, including Middlebury, can you please take this back and forth to the dedicated Middlebury post?  It’s more useful for all interested people to find there. Thanks so much. [/quote]

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