Middlebury Hurting Itself

LeCorbusier
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:35:06 +0000

This is weird because the Midd. tour and info session was my favorite. The admissions officer who gave the info. session was a nicely dressed (very Vermont) gruff looking guy and was extremely friendly. Our tour guide Dan Lee (I still remember his name, that is how memorable he was) was absolutely awesome. He was funny and told us about both the academic and social sides of the school. He told the parents to stand at the back so the students could hear (maybe this irritated some of the helicopter parents…) and he required each student on the tour to ask a question by the end. He took us to see Frost’s chair, and took us to his favorite study spots and told us why. We also spent a long time in one of the dining halls discussing food, because it is of course a very important subject. Again, it was the best visit I had from any of the LACs in NE, and definitely better than the Ivy tours (Harvard was especially bad and turned me totally off).

My interview was also great: basically it entailed drinking a nice cup of coffee and sitting on a park bench while discussing what we were both interested in. I think everything depends on how friendly and talkative you are. I am from the midwest, so maybe it just comes easier to me :P