<p>I don’t know what else the general public has to go on but what students say about their own colleges. So far no one from Middlebury, including yourself, has stepped foreward to say that the writer – who had the courage of his convictions to append his own name to a student publication – was wrong. Only that he applied to the wrong college, probably relying on an old stereotype that USNews’ mercurial swings of the pendulum did nothing to dissuade. That much we can agree on.</p>