NESCAC Spoken Here:

[circuitrider]

I think in many ways these schools are like high-flying stocks. You may want to “buy on the dip”, especially when we’re talking about such small values:

Middlebury Acceptance Rate at 13.9%

I shared mostly as new information for others to consider. Nonetheless, from reading the article, it appears that members of the Middlebury community believe that its admission results for this year, along with its slip in U.S. News, suggest a softening of its general appeal. On this, I’d say wait and see. Middlebury could be ranked 12th this coming season (for a prediction, see Middlebury Ranking - #9 by merc81), for example, or its decline in applications may simply reflect greater trends that have yet to become widely apparent. Middlebury’s current financial turbulence appears to represent a greater concern, however.