Thank you very much for this amazingly comprehensive comment! I am an international student living in Asia so it’s unlikely I can visit these schools in person (which also explains the inaccurate use of the word scandal, I guess. I didn’t mean to go that harsh on Midd). Although both Carleton and Midd have been affected by over-enrollment, I’d say that, in my humble opinion, the effect on Carleton is far less significant than on Midd. Carleton over-enrolled 20-30 students for one year, while there has been a rapid growth of roughly 300 students in the undergraduate student population at Midd. The FL requirement is not that much of an issue for me. I find learning foreign languages quite enjoyable and it would, instead of being something that makes me hesitate to get enrolled, makes a school more appealing. The psych departments are equally amazing. Midd has two more professors but I believe some of them also work in the neurosci department and offers fewer psycholinguistics-related courses, which are one of my academic interests.
Anyways, it’s been a very inspiring experience contemplating all the questions you asked in your post, and I truly appreciate your help.
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