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<p>I guess prestige is in the eye of the beholder. I grew up on the East Coast and lived for a time in the Midwest and South. I first heard about Middlebury when I was a freshman in high school. I’ve only recently come to appreciate that CMC is a good school (that’s often eclipsed by Pomona). Pass it off as East Coast bias, but Middlebury is (IMHO) more prestigious than CMC in New England and the Middle Atlantic states.</p>