Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 19:45     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:Friend's daughter was double legacy at Midd and is transferring.


Karen is cooking again!
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 19:45     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Friend's daughter was double legacy at Midd and is transferring.


More context? Why?


Everything has gone down the drain there. Experience has been terrible. Administration terrible. Money is becoming a problem…..soon these schools will go away.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 19:38     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:Friend's daughter was double legacy at Midd and is transferring.


More context? Why?
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 19:28     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Friend's daughter was double legacy at Midd and is transferring.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:46     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not a NESCAC fan, but in our full pay town Colby seems more popular than Middlebury for the 2nd tier NESCAC schools. Very seldom see a Bates auto decal-too liberal.
Interesting. At our school Middlebury is the harder admit among Williams, Amherst, and Middlebury. Williams and Amherst get more applications but Middlebury is the toughest admit. All are with a point or two and well above the averages so there are some athletes in the mix. Colby is a much easier admit and for some reason almost nobody applies top Bowdoin.
Colby is a much, much easier admit than any of the others listed here (except Bates, which is similar). If you're academically credible, full pay, and you visit, you're basically in.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:45     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Williams and Amherst only two brands that are immune to these shifts, they will always be considered on par with ivies. Middlebury, Pomona, Swat, W&L, Bowdoin Wes all great schools, but different cache and subject to the ebbs and flows of changing sentiments. Middlebury will come back as cycles shift

Not Amherst, terrible school that nobody wants to go to.


Why is the Amherst hater joining this conversation?


+1. That was our experience when we visited, which was really disappointing, because we thought we would love it.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:43     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Williams and Amherst only two brands that are immune to these shifts, they will always be considered on par with ivies. Middlebury, Pomona, Swat, W&L, Bowdoin Wes all great schools, but different cache and subject to the ebbs and flows of changing sentiments. Middlebury will come back as cycles shift

Not Amherst, terrible school that nobody wants to go to.


Why is the Amherst hater joining this conversation?

The original comment is wrong though. All the WASP colleges and Bowdoin/Midd have shown to be very resistant over time. This insistence of Williams Amherst as the absolute ceiling of LACs is strange and not real.


Absolutely, there is nothing special about Amherst and Williams relative to about 6/8 other schools with basically identical student profiles.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:41     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:Not a NESCAC fan, but in our full pay town Colby seems more popular than Middlebury for the 2nd tier NESCAC schools. Very seldom see a Bates auto decal-too liberal.


Interesting. At our school Middlebury is the harder admit among Williams, Amherst, and Middlebury. Williams and Amherst get more applications but Middlebury is the toughest admit. All are with a point or two and well above the averages so there are some athletes in the mix. Colby is a much easier admit and for some reason almost nobody applies top Bowdoin.

Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:31     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Williams and Amherst only two brands that are immune to these shifts, they will always be considered on par with ivies. Middlebury, Pomona, Swat, W&L, Bowdoin Wes all great schools, but different cache and subject to the ebbs and flows of changing sentiments. Middlebury will come back as cycles shift

Not Amherst, terrible school that nobody wants to go to.


Why is the Amherst hater joining this conversation?

The original comment is wrong though. All the WASP colleges and Bowdoin/Midd have shown to be very resistant over time. This insistence of Williams Amherst as the absolute ceiling of LACs is strange and not real.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:30     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Expensive and gives almost no merit.


Gives no merit like most of the NESCAC schools.


So a weird dichotomy of super rich kids and kids who qualify for FA. Hmmm.


Just like the Ivies
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:29     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:Then why is Middlebury dropping way down probably more than any other LAC. Is it location, poor management, or as others have suggested cyclical.

Fantastic school and big fan of the SLACs, but I think Middlebury may suffer from the widest athlete / non-athlete divide of all SLACs. Meaning if you are a non-athlete I’ve heard it’s tough to find your peeps. Whereas a liberal bastion like Wes readily celebrates the Doonesbury Zonker and poser NYC chic vibes (and sports are more of a counter culture despite sizable number of participants), a school like Middlebury may possibly struggle to find anything a non-athlete can readily identify with in terms of community


What is your reasoning for this. Athletes spend more time with their teams than with others but that is true anywhere. The kids that I know there have all friends group that span athlete and non-athlete. And, if such a divide existed which I doubt Middlebury is one of the larger SLACs and non-athletes have a much larger pool than most schools. There are more non-athletes at Middlebury than students at some of the other schools.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:24     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:Williams and Amherst only two brands that are immune to these shifts, they will always be considered on par with ivies. Middlebury, Pomona, Swat, W&L, Bowdoin Wes all great schools, but different cache and subject to the ebbs and flows of changing sentiments. Middlebury will come back as cycles shift

Not Amherst, terrible school that nobody wants to go to.


Why is the Amherst hater joining this conversation?
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:20     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
know 4 kids from area at Middlebury - all lax bros and bras
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:15     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:Williams and Amherst only two brands that are immune to these shifts, they will always be considered on par with ivies. Middlebury, Pomona, Swat, W&L, Bowdoin Wes all great schools, but different cache and subject to the ebbs and flows of changing sentiments. Middlebury will come back as cycles shift
Not Amherst, terrible school that nobody wants to go to.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 17:11     Subject: Applications down at Middlebury
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Expensive and gives almost no merit.


Gives no merit like most of the NESCAC schools.


So a weird dichotomy of super rich kids and kids who qualify for FA. Hmmm.