What is Middlebury REALLY like?

Modadunn
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:37:08 +0000

Not really cynical, actually… I always felt like some of those supplements were gearing themselves towards a “tell me why you love me best.” And actually Tufts specifically DOES ask, “Why Tufts?”. So I guess it could also be that reading those additional essays etc didn’t really give much more insight than did their application in general or they found the answers cliche or written too much for the audience requesting it specifically (the love again). Also, S’s English teacher (and most papers actually) started being submitted online (I guess so they had the option of running the thing through Turn it in dot com. So, any comments and the grade were merely typed on the page sent back to you. So while some schools may count applications PRIOR to their receipt of the application fee, requiring the pre-application supplement and fee before you’re counted may have something to do with it. However, I bet their numbers go up this year just because they have the supplement online like the rest of the application vs it always looking incomplete if you were using the common application website.