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Sep 14

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“How Did You Get Here?” Narrative Journalism Project Returns

The “How Did You Get Here?” project is back. Each year for the past few years, four students have been selected to be Fellows in Narrative Journalism for which they interview other Middlebury students about their lives leading up to arriving at Midd and then edit the interviews into audio vignettes. One such vignette that I did last year on Sopheak Chheng ’11.5 can be watched below, and you can visit the Middlebury Magazine website to see the rest of the videos from last year (finally).

An application to do it this year was sent out earlier this week in an all-campus email.  The deadline to send in your application is this Sunday, September 18th.

Mar 26

Welcome Middlebury Class of 2015!

This morning you waited anxiously, for that moment when you would discover whether or not you could swing your nalgene low, go green on the side, roll your jeans up high, with your Teva strap tight and your flannel so fly. That moment when you would discover whether or not you were a MiddKid. And then the time finally came and it said:

ACCEPTED.

Woohoo! Congratulations class of 2015 and 2015.5! MiddBlog would like to be among the first to wish you a warm welcome into the Middlebury community. We know that you will have tough decisions to make in the next couple weeks, so good luck! Obviously we would love to have you, but we know there are a ton of fantastic schools out there.

In the next couple days, we’ll try to keep this post updated with the latest information on acceptance, including more details about the 2015 class, as well as links to Facebook groups that will help you meet some of your future classmates. In the meantime, look at some snazzy admissions videos of our beautiful school or start to get yourself acclimated to Midd with MiddBlog’s Unofficial Orientation. Congrats again!

Also, Middlebury will be hosting Preview Days for all admitted students April 13th-15th. Come stay with a student and see the school in action! (A note to current students: the school needs as many students to host as possible! If you are interested, check out go/hosting.)

EDIT 3/29: The Welcome Site.

Mar 23

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WATCH: Middlebury Admissions Launches New Videos

Today, the Middlebury Admissions Office launched five new videos to showcase the campus in the fields of Environment, Worldview, Student Life, Community, and Academic Life. The videos were co-produced by Fieldwork Pictures and the Office of Communications.

Watch the likes of Ben Wessel, Sarah Chapin, Chris de la Cruz, Chime Dolma, and Anne Runkel as they give us a glimpse into life at Middlebury. (It’s also really fun to see if you or one of your friends makes a cameo…)

Oct 15

Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett on the SAT

SAT guides abound

Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett’s post today on the New York Times‘ “The Choice” blog adds some useful perspective to our discussion last week of SAT scores and educational evaluation.  From the blog:

Too many prospective applicants obsess far too much about the role of their SAT or ACT scores in the admissions process. In fact, those scores are seldom a deal maker or breaker.

…Test scores fundamentally provide colleges with the roughest possible measure of your potential for academic success in college, and their predictive value usually declines over time. But they don’t tell us much about your intellectual “fire in the belly,” and that’s what our faculties want in their classrooms. That’s why your high school grades, and the rigor of the academic program in which they are achieved, are a much better long-term predictor of your potential for academic success.

As I’ve said before, I’m very happy to have chosen a college that has an admissions process guided by this approach.  Feel free to comment if you disagree or have more information to contribute to this discussion.

Sep 19

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Why Middlebury?

In the age of CommonApp and acceptance rates that mirror the economy (but express no chance of upswing), applying to ten colleges isn’t a form of insanity—it’s a peace of mind. But almost inevitably, by the time April arrives there’s going to be more than one school knocking at your door.

Yes, it’s cliché, but it’s bound to be asked: Why Middlebury?

Was it the financial aid package that came smiling, attached to your acceptance letter? The words and numbers of the be-all, end-all US News and World Report? How about the subjective grades of College Prowler? Maybe it was the communal “wisdom”

Dexter chose Midd after observing a sunset from Bi-Hall.

of the only website that a high school senior may visit more often than Facebook—College Confidential. Perhaps it was just the Middlebury name.

Apparently my fellow freshmen in Hadley Hall don’t agree. An aspiring dental student says Bi-Hall was the clincher, a reason potent enough to apply ED for. Another freshman from the Golden Coast “wanted to wear scarves and leggings in the winter.” More than a few potential Midd Kids forged their decisions after watching a YouTube video titled with the same, two rhyming words. For myself, it was this very website.

A Vancouverite hailing from a land of gargantuan public universities, MiddBlog introduced me not only to Middlebury, but also to the concept of a liberal arts college itself. No, this isn’t a most glorious act of sucking up. These are candid words—about as candid as the image MiddBlog’s own words painted of Middlebury for me ten months ago.

But I’m convinced that my story isn’t unique. And with almost 600 new students on campus, my quest is an obvious one: find these stories and broadcast them. On a weekly basis I hope to carry out this task, every Sunday revealing a freshman’s story and a distinctive answer to one question:  Why Middlebury?

Because really, it is these narratives that ink the “A” letter grade at College Prowler, ensure the US News ranking of number 4, and stretch the Middlebury name around the globe.

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