<p>Lets be real guys: Midd is a great school and the students are very smart. But its academic level is not Amherst, Williams or Swarthmore (any more than Brown, for example, is HYPS). That is reflected in grad school admissions and, I am sure, by employers as well. I am not saying that it is bad, but rather it is just not AWS. The CC forums are all funny: people who are interested in a school tend to post in that schools forum claiming that it is the best in the world. I don’t know, maybe its to bolster their own decision, or because they couldn’t get into the other school to begin with (look how much negative stuff there is on Harvard all the time, even though their yield is the top in the country–meaning that if people get in, they go). But we should all keep that in mind. If I could get into HYPS, or (if I want small colleges) AWS then I would go there. College is not about who serves organic food in the dining hall. The most important thing is who are your classmates that you interact with everyday. Midd students are great, but they are not the “top top.”</p>