Middlebury Hurting Itself

abcd12
Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:07:36 +0000

I agree with the original poster about the info sessions. I’ve attended two student run sessions at Midd over the past three years, and they were not the quality we experienced at Williams, Wesleyan, Brown, Colgate, Cornell, etc… I live with an alumni interviewer, and know other interviewers well, and I question how that role is interpreted by different individuals. It seems to me that the most important things to a college should be the quality (not quantity) of the applicants it attracts and the students academic and social experience once enrolled. At a time when there do not seem to be enough seats in the classroom for current VT students, I was not reassured to read that the Trustees decided to meet in California rather than Vermont last month. Middlebury does have a beautiful campus but it is not convenient to get to, and for those who make the effort, the admissions visit could be a lot more hospitable.