Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 21:25     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Financial troubles probably giving some families pause. Not a huge impact but enough to put off some families that were on the fence.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 21:11     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC has Middlebury on their college list and was surprised to read that number of applications fell to a 5 year low in the last cycle. The student newspaper at Middlebury reported: “The college announced on May 1 that it had received 11,831 applications for the class of 2029 and 2029.5, a six percent drop from last year’s 12,540. Meanwhile, the overall acceptance rate increased to 13.9% from last year’s 12%.”

Are there any parents of current students or recent alum that can say what is driving this? Thanks



Vermont. 🙂


Thank you, did not know that about VT.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 21:05     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Application numbers vary from year to year. These changes are not drastic. They are blips on the radar screen.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:58     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The most troubling thing of all is if the college actually uses this terminology: "the class of 2029 and 2029.5"

2029.5 -- tell me this is a joke.


DCUM posts have referred to a February intake. I think that's what is meant.


What did you think it meant, first PP?
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:58     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:DC has Middlebury on their college list and was surprised to read that number of applications fell to a 5 year low in the last cycle. The student newspaper at Middlebury reported: “The college announced on May 1 that it had received 11,831 applications for the class of 2029 and 2029.5, a six percent drop from last year’s 12,540. Meanwhile, the overall acceptance rate increased to 13.9% from last year’s 12%.”

Are there any parents of current students or recent alum that can say what is driving this? Thanks



Vermont. 🙂
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:39     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:The most troubling thing of all is if the college actually uses this terminology: "the class of 2029 and 2029.5"

2029.5 -- tell me this is a joke.


Like Hamilton, Middlebury admits a cohort of students who start in the spring. They are referred to as Febs. Not reported in CDS data and likely accepted need aware as opposed to need blind.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:37     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:The most troubling thing of all is if the college actually uses this terminology: "the class of 2029 and 2029.5"

2029.5 -- tell me this is a joke.


DCUM posts have referred to a February intake. I think that's what is meant.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:32     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Did Middlebury increase the ED % of the class recently? And correspondingly decrease the RD % of the class?

If so, that might explain the total application number going down and the overall acceptance rate going up.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:31     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
The most troubling thing of all is if the college actually uses this terminology: "the class of 2029 and 2029.5"

2029.5 -- tell me this is a joke.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:31     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:test optional is over.

Yale's numbers went down too.

this is not a conspiracy.

apps at top 50 college shot up during TO when kids thought, what the hell .. I'll try.

but the dog days are over


Ugh, you test required zealots are so tiresome. Middlebury remains test optional and was for the 2029 application cycle. Moreover, just because NOVA mom wants the pendulum to swing back, it’s highly unlikely that there will be a wave of schools returning to test required. With schools facing the enrollment cliff, threats to funding, families questioning the cost or value of college, why would TO schools do something to deter applicants. This belief is just so counterintuitive it’s silly.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:27     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Could it have anything to do with U of Vermont ED starting last year? Along with UConn. Yes we all know Vermnt and UConn are public
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:23     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:test optional is over.

Yale's numbers went down too.

this is not a conspiracy.

apps at top 50 college shot up during TO when kids thought, what the hell .. I'll try.

but the dog days are over


TO is not over at Middlebury. Application numbers drop when the schools are about to go or go test required.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:19     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
test optional is over.

Yale's numbers went down too.

this is not a conspiracy.

apps at top 50 college shot up during TO when kids thought, what the hell .. I'll try.

but the dog days are over
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:18     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Relax.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2025 20:16     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
DC has Middlebury on their college list and was surprised to read that number of applications fell to a 5 year low in the last cycle. The student newspaper at Middlebury reported: “The college announced on May 1 that it had received 11,831 applications for the class of 2029 and 2029.5, a six percent drop from last year’s 12,540. Meanwhile, the overall acceptance rate increased to 13.9% from last year’s 12%.”

Are there any parents of current students or recent alum that can say what is driving this? Thanks