Deep Question for Middlebury Students...

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<p>I have a different type of question than are normally posted on this website. I'm not wondering IF I could get into Middlebury as a transfer, but SHOULD I transfer to Middlebury. In a nutshell, I am top 5% of my class, Student Government, coaching Club Tennis, a T.A., in a play, E-board for my fraternity...and I have been selected to be the face of my University next year.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I am not having the college experience that I had envisioned for myself. I find the school materialistic and shallow. As a sophomore, this is my last chance to transfer.</p>

<p>Students of Middlebury, is the Middlebury experience so amazing, that it is worth leaving my current college behind? Unlike other transfer students, I have completely intermeshed myself into my current University, so leaving would have some big repercussions for me.</p>

<p>I would leave if the grass on the other side was really greener.</p>

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<p>Middlebury rocks. But you might want to reconsider the "IF" question before you rush ahead to the "SHOULD" question. </p>

<p>Many selective LACs have little or no room for transfers. These schools are small to begin with, and the attrition rates are very low.</p>

<p>Middlebury, for example, had 230 transfer applications for fall 2005 (according to the latest Common Data Set). They accepted exactly one. </p>

<p>As a prospective transfer student, you might be better off focusing on larger universities which accept significant numbers of transfer students.</p>

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<p>Make sure that you apply as a transfer to multiple LACs. No top LAC is a shoo-in for any transfer student, even one who expects to be the face of his university next year, whatever that means. Does your current school know that their "face" is planning to transfer?</p>