<p>I'm a white female from Pennsylvania.
2100 SAT: 800 reading, 710 writing, 590 math (ouch)
4.4 GPA, straight A's, rank between 5-10 out of around 250.
Total of five AP's including this year, with 4's on all. My school offers maybe 10 different AP classes total.
I am also taking a total of 4 college classes this year in Anthropology, Religion, Genetics, and I don't know what the fourth is yet. However, I am not taking any math.
Extracurriculars: PA Governor's School for the Arts in poetry, Literary Magazine cofounder, English Festival, Forensics speech and debate and its club, NHS, Envirothon, Science Olympiad, Environmental Science club. Most of those are all 4 years and various awards with Science Olympiad and Envirothon. With the science club, I helped start a recycling program within the school, since all the white paper was being thrown away.
I plan on majoring in Creative Writing, maybe minoring in biology, or vice versa.
My question is, is Middlebury really as homogenous as I keep hearing? Is it true that it's lots of rich white kids who leave campus on the weekends? I find this hard to believe, since its acceptance rate is so low.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Ok, first things first...I think you have a very good shot.
As for Middlebury being homogenous, I really don't think it is. All fifty states and around 70 countries are represented, and it's hardly full of upper-crust white kids. In fact, very few people leave campus on the weekend because there is so much fun stuff to do. We may leave to go to a movie or go shopping in Burlington once every two months or go to a concert in a city nearby, but even the kids who grew up 20 minutes away don't go home for the weekend. Hope that helps! =)</p>
<p>thanks! you go to middlebury? what do you like most and dislike most about it?</p>
<p>Yes, I do go to Middlebury; I'm a sophomore. I really can't pinpoint what I like about Midd because I like everything: the people (faculty, staff, and students), the facilities (which are FANTASTIC) and everything that there is to do--I am never, never bored. There is only one thing I dislike--I don't even dislike it, it's just the consequence of Midd being where it is--is that students risk getting stuck in the "Middlebury bubble," which shields them from the outside world. That being said, we have tv, the web, newspapers, events and speakers to get us involved in the world outside of Midd, so if a student is stuck in the bubble and doesn't know what's going on out there, it's their own fault. That's my two cents worth. =)</p>