Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 23:40     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?


If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.

Had less of an impact on your chances of getting any job at Goldman than you think it does
-CMC parent
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 22:06     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?


If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.


The troll has never heard of those places. When you are living in your mom's single wide in an exurb of Des Moines, firms like that don't come up in conversation.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 22:02     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?


If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?

Yeah, I'm sure the hiring managers at Goldman Sachs (president and COO, John Waldron, Middlebury) and Morgan Stanley (CEO, Ted Pick, Middlebury) have absolutely no idea what Middlebury is.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 20:31     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sad to see applications down at Middlebury. I really loved it when my kid was touring colleges and it made me wish I could go back to college! Great place for those who don’t mind rural Vermont.


It's not sad. It's not like they're down 50%



It's not 50%, but you'd have to agree that it looks like the start of a long slide. Sadly.


Said no one who understands basic math.




Said a Middlebury parent wondering if making stuff up on DCUM can stop the slide.


Not a Middlebury parent, but I can do basic math. 🧮
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 20:29     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?


Mental illness somewhere in the mix for sure.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 20:29     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?


If you paid the average person $1,000 to tell you about Middlebury, they'd get zero. Hiring managers barely know.

It's a small school in Vermont.

Not worth the numerous threads.

Maybe one booster?
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 20:25     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
I've had kids not to get into plenty of colleges and never really thought to take that momentary disappointment and turn into my whole personality as Middlebury Hater has chosen to do. I guess we all need hobbies!
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 20:02     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.


There is a cohort that starts second semester. Why is this an issue?
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 19:39     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?


They’re consistent and they show up in pretty much every SLAC thread eventually. They need help.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 19:36     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sad to see applications down at Middlebury. I really loved it when my kid was touring colleges and it made me wish I could go back to college! Great place for those who don’t mind rural Vermont.


It's not sad. It's not like they're down 50%



It's not 50%, but you'd have to agree that it looks like the start of a long slide. Sadly.


Only looks that way to someone with an irrational hatred of Middlebury. We once has sympathy but we’re on to you and are quite happy that your kid didn’t get in.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 18:17     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?

Yeesh, you need to take your daily meds.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 18:14     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
I'm curious about this person who hates middlebury SO much they invest all this time peppering every post on mid ever - or even a mid comment in another thread. This person must search "Middlebury" every morning and launch into it.

It's weird because if a kid is rejected, you might hold a grudge for a minute but who cares.

And if your kid went to a school and didnt love it, again - that's not such a big deal. Happens a lot. Who really cares.

So I can't really figure it out. Maybe they themselves interviewed for a job and didnt get it?
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 18:05     Subject: Re:Applications down at Middlebury
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Anonymous wrote:Amherst, Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Carleton, Bowdoin are all damn near identical. Don’t get the ranking foolishness done here.

On the same level, yes. Identical, no. There are defining features of each of these colleges. It is wild to claim that Pomona in southern California is the same experience as Carleton in small town Minnesota is the same experience as Williams in rural Massachusetts.


Grinnell is every bit as good as any of them as well. The leaders of any one of those schools would agree.

Grinnell is B-tier at best and has to bribe students with excessive merit aid to commit. Nowhere near the same ballpark.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 18:04     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sad to see applications down at Middlebury. I really loved it when my kid was touring colleges and it made me wish I could go back to college! Great place for those who don’t mind rural Vermont.


It's not sad. It's not like they're down 50%



It's not 50%, but you'd have to agree that it looks like the start of a long slide. Sadly.


Said no one who understands basic math.




Said a Middlebury parent wondering if making stuff up on DCUM can stop the slide.


A Middlebury parent would have a Middlebury graduate in under 4 years.

Why would they care about a "slide"?


The value of the degree slides too.

Eventually, there will be a DCUM post: "Didn't Middlebury used to be a good school?"

And then some old-timer (likely you from the retirement home), will regale everyone with tales of the olden days of 12k applicants, students clamoring to learn languages, and hordes of ED kids ready to be full pay and wait to start in February to help Middlebury with its scheme of hiding the stats of its academically middling rich kids.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2025 17:34     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sad to see applications down at Middlebury. I really loved it when my kid was touring colleges and it made me wish I could go back to college! Great place for those who don’t mind rural Vermont.


It's not sad. It's not like they're down 50%



It's not 50%, but you'd have to agree that it looks like the start of a long slide. Sadly.


Said no one who understands basic math.




Said a Middlebury parent wondering if making stuff up on DCUM can stop the slide.


A Middlebury parent would have a Middlebury graduate in under 4 years.

Why would they care about a "slide"?