Anonymous wrote:Middlebury’s okay, but there are much better LACs with more rigorous academics and student diversity.

And.....Vermont.

No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard they're going through serious fiscal trouble at Middlebury.

Stop it; I don’t know who you are but you are constantly pushing a very false narrative whenever there is a discussion about Middlebury.

I have never posted about Middlebury. Please ask Jeff to check my post history. Thanks.

A classmate of my kid’s who was genuinely a terrible student who struggled with any form of rigor or expectations was admitted thanks to a rec from a dean who was a friend of her parents. Makes a bad impression.

Anonymous wrote:Middlebury’s okay, but there are much better LACs with more rigorous academics and student diversity.

Stop it; I don’t know who you are but you are constantly pushing whatever negative and typically false narrative’s that you can come up with whenever there is a discussion about Middlebury.

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Anonymous wrote:I attended Stanford, and recently toured Pomona. Up to that point, we had only visited SLACS in the east coast. Pomona had a familiar feel to Stanford, though none of the spaces are as grand (Palm Drive, Mem Chu Quad, the art museum with Rodin sculptures, etc).

Palm drive and such spaces exist because Stanford is basically Disneyland- it never ends and is a massive campus. There’s really no liberal arts college that is constructed that way.

+1, what a ridiculous comparison. Oh no, a liberal arts college isn’t over decorating a highway

Middlebury’s okay, but there are much better LACs with more rigorous academics and student diversity.

Anonymous wrote:Appearance of a campus is pretty low on my list of decision factors. I happened to go to Duke which is gorgeous but the appearance isn’t why I went.

It was brought up because people kept on hammering that it’s this gorgeous country club, which…I guess people go to some sad country clubs around here.

Anonymous wrote:I attended Stanford, and recently toured Pomona. Up to that point, we had only visited SLACS in the east coast. Pomona had a familiar feel to Stanford, though none of the spaces are as grand (Palm Drive, Mem Chu Quad, the art museum with Rodin sculptures, etc).

Palm drive and such spaces exist because Stanford is basically Disneyland- it never ends and is a massive campus. There’s really no liberal arts college that is constructed that way.

Anonymous wrote:I've heard they're going through serious fiscal trouble at Middlebury.

Stop it; I don’t know who you are but you are constantly pushing a very false narrative whenever there is a discussion about Middlebury.

Anonymous wrote:I've heard they're going through serious fiscal trouble at Middlebury.

Not sure about “serious.” They have a $14M budget deficit this year, of which $9M is from the Middlebury Institute in California. They also have a $1.4B endowment and sub 14% acceptance rate. I’m sure they’ll be just fine.

I've heard they're going through serious fiscal trouble at Middlebury.

I attended Stanford, and recently toured Pomona. Up to that point, we had only visited SLACS in the east coast. Pomona had a familiar feel to Stanford, though none of the spaces are as grand (Palm Drive, Mem Chu Quad, the art museum with Rodin sculptures, etc).

Does Pomona look like a mini Stanford to anyone else or is it just me? (Based on the images I see)

Middlebury is beautiful in the summer but of course only the summer language students and a few other students doing research are there. If your kid is admitted and serious about it, go for it’s admitted student event in April so they can see what so-called spring in New England is like.

pomona wins in the looks department. I think Midd has nicer facilities than WAS (swat does have great dining though), but they all look grey on a foggy day in march. News at 11.