<p>This might just be personal experience, but when I went to visit Middlebury this February (I’m a junior), I sat in on a biology class. The professor was really quite good, but I found myself listening to a lecture on something we’d done about 3 weeks ago in my AP Biology class. It wasn’t that the topic was somewhat familiar; the Midd class really wasn’t going more in depth than what I’d just done. I would expect this of a 100 level class, but since it was a 200 level class (and the person I went to class with was a Bio major herself, so it wasn’t just science for English majors or something…), I was somewhat disappointed. </p>
<p>I don’t want to really deter you from Middlebury, though - it’s a gorgeous campus, and I got a great feeling of community when I was there. It could’ve just been one bad experience, and I know that the AP Bio program at my own high school is very strong (something like 90% of the Juniors who take the AP get 5s), but I figured I’d give you my $0.02. :)</p>