<p>Middlover:
Middlebury is a fine school but not the unblemished paradise you suggest. In fact, there are certainly better feeder schools for graduate school (particularly medical and law school) and, as a practical mattter, very few folks find thenselves simultaneously attracted to an urban school like Harvard and a rural school like Middlebury, quite apart from the merits of attending one or the other. As for your suggestion that professors at larger schools “couldn’t care less about their undergrad students [and are] just there to gain money and access to the university facilities, or to teach grad and PhD students,” it is inflamatory and ill-informed, as anyone who has attended one of the better such schools will attest, notwithstanding the TAs.</p>