Aug 3
How did Middlebury do this year? (vs. 2010, 2009)
We also made the “Best Northeastern Colleges” list.
| #6 | Most Popular Study Abroad Program |
| #13 | Best Campus Food |
| #12 | Best Career Services |
| #15 | Dorms Like Palaces |
| #3 | Professors Get High Marks |
| #4 | School Runs Like Butter |
| #6 | Students Study the Most |
| #15 | Best Classroom Experience |
| #6 | Best Quality of Life |
| #18 | Best Athletic Facilities |
Aug 20
U.S. News and World Report’s 2010 College Rankings places Middlebury at #4 among liberal arts schools behind Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore. Middlebury tied with Wellesley for fourth.
Middlebury was ranked fifth in the liberal arts category for the past three years (2007, 2008 and 2009). As noted in previous years, Middlebury is part of the Annapolis Group, which expresses concerns about the ranking system as a whole. A InsideHigherEd.com story yesterday took issue with the reputational survey portion of the US News rankings. The official US News methodology. While many call the rankings flawed, they still are the most widely cited and popular rankings of colleges and universities in the United States as well as for international students looking at US colleges.
Forbes Magazine ranks all higher education institutions together in a single survey (instead of categories) and dropped Middlebury from 17th in 2008 and 25th this year. The official Forbes methodology. Princeton Review does not do number rankings but instead has specific categories across institution types (here’s how we did). Prospective students are increasingly turning to other sites to learn more about and discuss Middlebury. College Confidential runs a whole discussion that seems to be absent of actual Middlebury students and is instead helped by various Midd parents. College Prowler is also a popular option similar to Princeton Review but a bit less institutional, giving Middlebury a D+ in nightlife but an A in Academics.
MiddBlog was nominated for best alternative news outlet on the US News Paper Trail Blog last year.
Update: Sierra Club ranks Middlebury #3 in “Cool Schools,” meaning the schools with “green credentials.” Princeton Review also had us on their “Green Honor Roll“
Jul 27
Here’s how Middlebury did this year (compared to last year):
We also made the “Green Honor Roll“
Oct 29
Total cost of education, as ranked by Campus Grotto via Consumerist.com:
Highest Total Cost 2008-2009
College | Total Cost
1. Sarah Lawrence College | $53,166
2. George Washington University | $50,312
3. New York University | $50,182
4. Georgetown University | $49,689
5. Connecticut College | $49,385
6. Bates College | $49,350
7. Johns Hopkins University | $49,278
8. Skidmore College | $49,266
9. Scripps College | $49,236
10. Middlebury College | $49,210
11. Carnegie Mellon University | $49,200
12. Boston College | $49,020
13. Wesleyan University | $49,000
14. Colgate University | $48,900
15. Claremont McKenna College | $48,755
via Wesleying
Aug 22
Yes, Ryan that is true. THE BIG ONE IS OUT! Harvard has taken over Princeton! Amherst has taken over Williams! And aliens are taking over us! (More on this later). Actually, Wamhillerst is both number 1 at 100%. So let them fight it out. Not like any innocent bystanders will get in the way.
But the fact of the matter is: I had to face my mother this morning. I had to face my mother and explain to her why the tuition to Middlebury is +10,000$ more than Amherst. And Williams. And Swarthmore. And Wellesley. And Bowdoin. And Pomona. And Carleton. And Davidson. And Haverford. And Claremont. And Vassar. Oh wait, we only cost 9,000$ more than Vassar (Sup, Meryl?). And Wesleyan. And Grinnell. And Harvey Mudd. You get the point, I’m just going down the list. And so did she (My Mom, not Meryl).
And she went down this one too…
And Harvard. And Princeton. And Yale. And MIT. And Stanford. And CalTech. And UPenn. And Colombia (oh sorry only 9, 900$ more). And Duke. And UChicago. And Dartmouth. And Northwestern (Hi Lucas!). And WashU. And Cornell. And Johns Hopkins. And Brown…
And I was a bit baffled for a moment. And she glared at me for a moment. (Our financial situation could be a Shakespearian comedy without the marriage(s) at the end–that’s why she was glaring). She glared at me with hot poker eyes for a moment. But not really.
The first thing that came to my mind was: well our meal plan isn’t THAT good… we only cost, what 7$ tops a day to feed? What did that little plastic standy-uppy thingy on the table say?
The second thing that came to my mind was: Maybe it’s all the construction they are doing to appease and clean up after the extra terrestrials (still more on this later). But then I remembered, Vassar had aliens too this summer. Yale had them about two years ago when I decided I was physically too little to want to go there yet. Dartmouth didn’t have many when I went to pick my sister up at “so you want to go into medicine har-Har-HAR” camp. Not even the alien’s care about New Hampshire (I’m from there (here) which means I can say that).
The third thing that came to mind was: the “others” aren’t including room and board. Which, in fact, they aren’t. I explained that to my mother, and she sulked off as if a great battle had been called off for a bit of rain. But not really.
I apologize if you had wanted to read something with more of a conclusion or a climax towards the end there.
But not really.
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