I went to Conn and loved it but what do I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Visited Connecticut College and was not impressed. Surrounding town was shabby and scary, campus buildings old and tired looking.

New London is cleaning up. Sounds like you need to experience how normal people in a shipbuilding town live.

Right? I did not find it "scary." At all.

Anonymous wrote:Visited Connecticut College and was not impressed. Surrounding town was shabby and scary, campus buildings old and tired looking.

New London is cleaning up. Sounds like you need to experience how normal people in a shipbuilding town live.

I just looked at data for Middlebury, it is SO small wow. Smaller than most high schools!

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Anonymous wrote:Both Middlebury and Colby are amazing and incredibly hard to get into. So many folks here know nothing about LACs. Colby is actually harder to get into than Middlebury. My DS found them to be too remote, but thought they were great schools.

Appreciate your honesty, but you lost credibility by claiming that "Colby is actually harder to get into than Middlebury".

Colby College plays games regarding admissions. I suspect that one who has offers from both schools would select Middlebury.

I agree with this (and I'm a Colby grad). If you took the same 100 kids and they applied to all three, Middlebury would accept the fewest, Colby next, and Conn College would take the most.

I believe the academic profile is very comparable between Colby and Middlebury.
However, Middlebury is need-blind, Colby is need-aware.
Richer kids can get in Colby easier, but harder for middle-class or lower.

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Anonymous wrote:Both Middlebury and Colby are amazing and incredibly hard to get into. So many folks here know nothing about LACs. Colby is actually harder to get into than Middlebury. My DS found them to be too remote, but thought they were great schools.

Appreciate your honesty, but you lost credibility by claiming that "Colby is actually harder to get into than Middlebury".

Colby College plays games regarding admissions. I suspect that one who has offers from both schools would select Middlebury.

I agree with this (and I'm a Colby grad). If you took the same 100 kids and they applied to all three, Middlebury would accept the fewest, Colby next, and Conn College would take the most.

Conn College seems like a good option for a full pay kid who would love to go to Midd or Colby (which are both extremely hard to get in) whose academic profile isn’t quite there.

Agree with poster about Connecticut College campus. It has quintessential college look, on the water, no less - it looks like a postcard. Surprising number of kids from California attend, who were looking for that classic Northeast college look..

The “strivers” comment is interesting. I don’t agree, but the simplicity of the statement gets to the heart of something important — about LACs, and I suspect about DCUM. Liberal arts colleges are modeled around the old Aristotelian notion of human flourishing — aspiring toward wisdom, not merely knowledge; nurturing the soul even as one nurtures the mind; studying broadly and deeply even when there’s no clear/tangible reason to do so; seeking not merely a career but a fulfilling life. It’s not a linear path, it doesn’t create a tidy ROI, it’s definitely not for everyone, and it seems like it’s not for several posters here. Which is fine!

But I don’t agree that these schools don’t have strivers. I think it’s a different kind of striver. OP’s kid will have to decide what kind of striver they are.

Anonymous wrote:My DS spent a summer at Colby and said it was very isolated and for him, not enough around to last 4 full years.

I am confused on this regarding isolation. If it is summer then hardly anyone at campus so not a good example of school. Also shuttle to Waterville is literally a mile off campus and Main Street Waterville has more restaurants etc then the restaurant row at UVA. Colby FYI has poured tens of millions of dollars into Waterville and it is showing.

Anonymous wrote:UVA placing better than Midd? Laughable. You are probably from below the Mason-Dixon Line and clearly are out of your league. Let the big boys do the talking. You probably make under 300k.

Do you know where the Mason-Dixon Line was?

Anonymous wrote:I too am suspicious of the Colby admit rate. I’m a Midd alum with several classmates whose kids recently got into Colby and not Middlebury, even as legacies. I know another kid in class if 22 who ED’d to Midd, got rejected and ended up at Colby. Maybe Colby is just harder to get into if you are not an affluent white kid??

Colby has no fee applications which juices the number of applicants that can then be rejected

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Anonymous wrote:Both Middlebury and Colby are amazing and incredibly hard to get into. So many folks here know nothing about LACs. Colby is actually harder to get into than Middlebury. My DS found them to be too remote, but thought they were great schools.

Appreciate your honesty, but you lost credibility by claiming that "Colby is actually harder to get into than Middlebury".

Colby College plays games regarding admissions. I suspect that one who has offers from both schools would select Middlebury.

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=middlebury&s=all&fv=161086+230959&cp=1&sl=161086+230959

Test scores are about same. Colby has higher rate of test score submission than Middlebury.
I don't see why people say Middlebury is harder to get in.

Because Middlebury actually cares about whom it admits. Not trying to be impolite just sharing my impression.

My DS spent a summer at Colby and said it was very isolated and for him, not enough around to last 4 full years.

What????