<p>While the safety suggestions above are good ones, I’d also start a campaign of bugging Middlebury. Visit there, contact Admissions to see if there’s anything you can do to bolster your application from a year ago, e-mail profs in biology and arrange to talk with them on your visit. Your record is strong enough that I’d hope some earnest interest and a refusal to be deterred might push you over the top.</p>