Suggestions for Visit to Midd

journey919
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:25 +0000

Thanks everybody for all the helpful suggestions.

The trip went very well and my D really liked Middlebury. Coming from a very tacky suburb, she felt she had stepped into a Christmas card! The campus is certainly beautiful and the new construction quite amazing.

She was most impressed by the the two classes she visited. The professors in both were really excellent and helpful. One professor even helped arrange for her to have lunch with a student! She did check in at admissions, and visited most of the buildings you all recommended. She had a talk with the swim coach and he was encouraging but she did get the sense that swimming at Middlebury is a bit more intense than at the other schools she has visited so if she gets in and attends, that will be a decision to make.

Her fear about Middlebury had been the number of “rich preppy” kids but after the visit she got the sense that there were plenty of different types of kids and no one subculture dominates. Do you think her impression is accurate? The school is not very diverse, but more diverse than she expected and at least on this short visit, she noticed a lot of interaction between races. Students were overall friendly and helpful.

Her only real disappointment was that Middlebury does not have a Baha’i Club. (She visited the Chaplain’s office to ask about this). She would love to go to a school with at least one or two Baha’i students, but perhaps some will attend next year.