<p>Hi, I'm a student from Houston, TX who has accepted to attend Middlebury.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if anyone has said "No" to Midd and why he or she has done so :)</p>
<p>Yes. To attend another school.</p>
<p>lol ok. I guess the next question is where did you decide to go instead?</p>
<p>I’m gonna pull off the waitlist cos I got into Dartmouth. Which maybe isn’t really saying no…</p>
<p>oh ok. did they give you a better financial aid package, or do you just prefer Dartmouth?</p>
<p>oh and that really wasn’t an acceptance, it was just waitlist</p>
<p>Weatherman, since you took my sarcastic remark in such good humor I’ll expand. S chose Duke over Middlebury primarily because he has a very specific program he wants to pursue, and while Middlebury’s is excellent, Duke’s is broader. Obviously Duke and Middlebury are very different schools but still it was a hard choice that came down to his perception of program fit - socially they are really different, obviously, but he would have been happy at either.</p>