Anonymous
Post 04/20/2025 01:08     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Anonymous wrote:How many current members of Supreme Court are Midd grads or current US senators or famous Doctors went to Midd answer o. By contrast Holy Cross counts Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts wife, Anton Scalia’s son. Btw, Senator Welch of Vermont Is a HC grad as is Dr Fauci. Sure Midd has some wall st types but Holy Cross has lots of CEO’s including several women- Jet Blue, Under Armor list is long.


My Midd class of 450 produced 2 SCOTUS clerks.
Lots of CEO alumni. Midd grads are currently leading Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2025 00:59     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Anonymous wrote:How many current members of Supreme Court are Midd grads or current US senators or famous Doctors went to Midd answer o. By contrast Holy Cross counts Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts wife, Anton Scalia’s son. Btw, Senator Welch of Vermont Is a HC grad as is Dr Fauci. Sure Midd has some wall st types but Holy Cross has lots of CEO’s including several women- Jet Blue, Under Armor list is long.


Scalia went to Xavier HS back in the days when you could only really go to a catholic college for undergrad. Also true for Regis HS where Fauci went. Regis grads were only allowed to apply to catholic colleges

this is not true today.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 22:40     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Anonymous wrote:How many current members of Supreme Court are Midd grads or current US senators or famous Doctors went to Midd answer o. By contrast Holy Cross counts Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts wife, Anton Scalia’s son. Btw, Senator Welch of Vermont Is a HC grad as is Dr Fauci. Sure Midd has some wall st types but Holy Cross has lots of CEO’s including several women- Jet Blue, Under Armor list is long.


Not Midd or HC but St Lawrence can claim Susan Collins (regardless of your politics, she’s a longstanding senator), Viggo Mortenson, Kirk Douglas, and Martha McCallum. Many CEOs and finance leaders, as well as a well-funded endowment.

SLU doesn’t get enough love on this board and it’s normally not worth the fight to go up against the Ivy/UVA/Catholic/NESCAC conglomerate here on DCUM; but, since it’s already on OP’s list, it’s worth letting them
know it’s a more than viable alternative.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 22:29     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

UVM
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:46     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Unlikely to get merit but Colby checks several other boxes?
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:42     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Bennington? And yes to Union and Hobart & William Smith. And St. Bonaventure.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:32     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

McGill isn't a bad drive from both the Canadian ski resorts (which are supposed to be really good) and the Vermont ones. It is also cheaper than US schools though it is very big.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:24     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

University of Nevada at Reno is great for skiing.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:13     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Bennington? No 4-1-4, but they offer merit, and there’s skiing within an hour.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:04     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

^great private colleges provide connections and entrance to internships and jobs can’t speak for Middlebury but Holy Cross alumni network is s power house much better than mine.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:02     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

I think the assertion was that HC Econ does better than Middlebury graduates which is just not true due to the numbers of. I’d grads who go the Banking Consulting route.

I think HC is a great school, tried to get my kid to consider it. Neither Clarence Thomas or a Scalia are something that I would be very proud of at the moment.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 21:01     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

I think OP needs to tell us how important skiing is. Midd has killington and sugarbush less than an hour away.
Few places mentioned are even half as well situated.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 20:58     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Anonymous wrote:How many current members of Supreme Court are Midd grads or current US senators or famous Doctors went to Midd answer o. By contrast Holy Cross counts Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts wife, Anton Scalia’s son. Btw, Senator Welch of Vermont Is a HC grad as is Dr Fauci. Sure Midd has some wall st types but Holy Cross has lots of CEO’s including several women- Jet Blue, Under Armor list is long.

Why should it matter that a grad is someone’s wife or son? Seems like a very low bar.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 20:55     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

Anonymous wrote:How many current members of Supreme Court are Midd grads or current US senators or famous Doctors went to Midd answer o. By contrast Holy Cross counts Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts wife, Anton Scalia’s son. Btw, Senator Welch of Vermont Is a HC grad as is Dr Fauci. Sure Midd has some wall st types but Holy Cross has lots of CEO’s including several women- Jet Blue, Under Armor list is long.

Thank you the information on Holy Cross?
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2025 20:50     Subject: Similar to Middlebury, but with merit

How many current members of Supreme Court are Midd grads or current US senators or famous Doctors went to Midd answer o. By contrast Holy Cross counts Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice Roberts wife, Anton Scalia’s son. Btw, Senator Welch of Vermont Is a HC grad as is Dr Fauci. Sure Midd has some wall st types but Holy Cross has lots of CEO’s including several women- Jet Blue, Under Armor list is long.