How is Midds Financial Aid

PantherPride99
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:53:08 +0000

UrbanSlaughter: not to beat the pedantic point to death…but it doesn’t matter when Midd came off of “a list.” Lists sometimes have a lag time to them, and in this case, that lag time was likely due to Midd’s slowness in explaining its policy before its most recent strategic plan — the one the trustees approved in 2006-07.

Trust me: I was on the strategic planning committee and this was a major point pushed by the president–to be more open about financial aid policies, along with including, for the first time in 2006 all the SAT scores for Middlebury matriculants, as opposed to the old practice of only reporting the 50-55% of those matrics who chose the SAT Is (vs ACTs and SAT IIs) for the admissions process. Avg scores went down 50-60 pts (combined M and V), but the president felt the numbers reflected better who was coming to Middlebury and thereby would not dissuade some great students with 1370-1400 SATs from applying (since the 55% reporting led to reporting scores higher than Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore, which was not the case).

Fin Aid for internationals has not been need-blind at Midd for at least 10 and most likely 15 years (though, as I posted, it is still very generous).