<p>Where do people see applications down this past year at Midd? ED1 was down, but it was a record year at 8850, up from the past record of 8350 or so. The NYT had a blurb on its blog that it was down, then corrected it, but where do folks see apps down? Not the case.</p>
<p>Also: hard to reconcile the methodology when UPenn and Dartmouth, let along some others, are do low. Midd’s debt is less than Amherst’s now, so I doubt that is the methodological reason, unless Moda is saying the ratio of debt to overall assets is the issue.</p>
<p>But I would not worry too much about these rankings. It is indeed the quality of education students are receiving and the opportunities they have during their four years…and how well prepared they are to do their post-college thing.</p>