Middlebury vs Hamilton

citivas
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 01:14:16 +0000

Wes has a great Econ department. It’s reputation is in the same league as the rest. It’s quickly re-building it’s endowment, especially with the momentum of the Lin-Manuel Miranda buzz. It’s larger than the others on your short list so far with about 3,000 undergraduates and a small grad population. It’s probably the least rural of all of the schools on that list, in a working class. Closest metro area is Hartford but it’s also the closest to NYC of all the schools you listed. The cultural vibe of the schools is more different than the rest on your list. More politically active, more independent. Fantastic film and music programs. The campus and surrounding area, in my opinion, is the least attractive of the bunch, but it’s certainly not bad. Smaller ratio of athletes than any of the other schools on your list, by a factor of half. Still has a tiny frat population it has been trying to kill off but meeting resistant. It’s gotten a lot of press due to drug problems but I suspect that’s not really indicative of it being a larger problem than the others. It’s rank has been on the rise this year and was probably somewhat held back by it’s previous poor endowment relative to it’s peers. Great school.