Middlebury Hurting Itself

dukealumni
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:07:23 +0000

I am really sorry to hear about the OP’s experience. My DS’s experience was different. When he sat in on a beginning chemistry class, the professor talked to him and another student after class for over 1/2 hour and showed them some of the equipment that Midd had that they could be working with if they went to midd. Also, when our family was walking around the science building on a Sunday afternoon, we met several prof.s who took a lot of time to talk to us about Midd. One time an economics prof. stopped us in the library and asked us all about ourselves and our child. Our son now is a freshman at midd and loving it. He has had little trouble getting the classes he wants.(He had to go on a waiting list for one class, but was admitted to the class several weeks later.)

One thing I agree with is the info sessions are not consistent. (We went to two). I think that if they are led by students that they have more training. Our favorite info sessions were all led by either admissions staff or by a combination of students and admissions. In many ways, because so much info is on line, info sessions are somewhat outdated and the schools that did something a little different were the ones we liked the best.