Opinions of Middlebury

Lindyhopper3618
Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:45:59 +0000

Like you, I looked at a bunch of liberal arts colleges before settling on Middlebury, which I actually first saw my junior year of high school. In fact, I ended up doing ED 1, with no regrets whatsoever. Interestingly enough, the schools I looked at were either women’s colleges or schools even smaller than Middlebury; I didn’t look at Williams or Amherst. Come to think of it, I don’t really know why–I think because I had so many other schools on my list that I needed to narrow it down and there wasn’t enough of a draw for me at places like that. That (and this is rather addressing the posts made after yours and mine) and I didn’t really want to go to a place that EVERYBODY knew about. So why Middlebury and not the other places I looked at? At the time I applied, I was thinking of being a French major and Middlebury has one of the best language and international studies programs in the country, I can safely say. It also has a fantastic writing program. As far as intellectual and academic snobbiness goes, I haven’t encountered any of it. Nobody goes around and says, “Yes, I go to Middlebury College,” and immediately assume that people will think they’re brilliant (and I’m not saying that people at other places do, because I wouldn’t know). What also made me choose Middlebury was the fact that I found that I wanted to work with their specific facilities, be taught by certain professors that I met and meet the type of people that I met there when I visited. In other words, if you step onto a campus, can imagine yourself there and cannot imagine yourself leaving, it’s the place for you, regardless of whether it’s Middlebury or not.