Well…if we are voting, I vote for BC. First, it has a beautiful several hundred acre campus that feels like it’s not right in a city. Second, as I mentioned above, the Jesuits really have higher education well crafted (disclaimer, my younger kid graduated from Santa Clara, another Jesuit college…and we were very pleased with the college). The Jesuits have a strong tradition of giving back to their communities, and we thought that was important and so did our kid. Third, I don’t know where you live, but getting to BC is likely a lot easier to get to than getting to Middlebury (unless you live in the northeast kingdom of VT). And lastly, BC is in closer proximity to places where your student might garner internships during their college years.
So…my vote would be BC…but your kid is going to college next year, not me!