<p>I am considering applying for middlebury. Since I would probably be major in English &Creative writing</p>
<p>1.Any information about this major at Middlebury ? </p>
<p>2.What do the students feel, think or comment on the program? </p>
<p>3.I also heard that there is an annual writers' conference at Midd, what is it like? Can Midd students attend this conference?</p>
<p>4I also want to apply for Williams or Swarthmore. Since there is no ranking for particular major for liberal arts colleges, how do you differentiate between Williams and Swarthmore?</p>
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<li><p>Which one is more renowed in English literature?Williams, Amherst, or Swarthmore? </p></li>
<li><p>How about Bowdoin's English compared to Will, Swar, Midd and Amherst? </p></li>
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<p>7.regarding to the location, which one will be more suitable for international students?</p>
All these schools offer pretty much the same educational product. They are all about equally selective. The differences are fairly subtle. Williams has distinctive, Oxford-style tutorial classes (just a couple of students per professor). Swarthmore is known for a very rigorous program, especially its honors program, which features PhD-style oral examinations by outside scholars.</p>
<p>I suggest you apply to several of these very selective schools if you think you are qualified.Chances are, the admission committees will help you differentiate
Suitable in what way? Climate? Middlebury, Bowdoin, Williams and Amherst are in Northern states. You may find the winters very cold if you are from a warm country. Or do you mean suitable with respect to the number of current international students? Most small LACs attract relatively few internationals. You can find the exact numbers from each school’s Common Data Set document, section B (Google). </p>
<p>Macalester College has relatively many international students and is in a large city, unlike the many other LACs (including Midd, Williams and Bowdoin) that are in rural areas.</p>
<p>Middlebury’s English department is very strong and the Bread Loaf programs do provide many ties with writers. Jay Parini, who wrote the Last Station (about Tolstoy which was made into a movie recently) and many other works, teaches at Middlebury. But you are probably not going to distiniguish among these schools based on English departments. All of the top LACs are likely to have excellent English departments. Middlebury has a slightly higher percentage of international students, in part because of it’s very strong international studies and language departments. They recently added a linguistics minor and have master’s programs in international relations through their affiliation with the Monterey Institute. Regarding your question about location, as tk21769 mentioned, we need to know what you mean. Very few top liberal arts colleges are in cities (other than Macalaster and, I think, Occidental). A few are near (Swarthmore, Haverford) big cities but you would have to examine how often the students even go into the city and whether that factor is important enough as a distinction. Bowdoin is quite close to Portland, but, again, you have to think how important that once a month trip into the city is.</p>
<p>All these schools are very welcoming if that is what you mean by ‘how they treat international students.’ The weather in the NE (Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin and Middlebury) is very cold and winters are long, so it helps if you like winter sports and activities. Winters in the mid-Atlantic region, where Swarthmore is, tend to be milder. Is cold bad? Depends on what you want. More internships will be available in and near urban areas, and Swarthmore is linked to Philadelphia by public transportation. Williams, Bowdoin and Middlebury are definitely rural so fewer options. (Haven’t been to Amherst, so I’m not sure). However, all of these schools are adept at locating internships (not necessarily paid, however) for students over the summer all over the country: during the school year, the location may be more limiting. Transportation from Williams and Middlebury may also be more costly and complicated since they are not near urban hubs when it comes to returning home for a visit, or just traveling. Bowdoin is not far from Portland, a small city with some good transportation links.</p>
<p>You can’t go wrong at any of these schools. They are all highly regarded. Take a look at the course catalogs for each of these schools to see where their coursework is focused in the departments that are of greatest interest to you.</p>
<p>^ Colorado Springs has a population of over 400,000. More than 600K if you include the whole metro area. That’s comparable to Kansas City or Atlanta, and not terribly much smaller than Milwaukee, Nashville, DC, or Baltimore. That’s bigger than St. Paul, Newark, or Buffalo. By population it’s the second largest in its state; by area, it’s the largest.</p>
<p>Money magazine designated Colorado Springs the No. 1 Best Big City in “Best Places to Live” in 2006. Outside magazine designated it number 1 in its 2009 list of America’s Best Cities. But I’d agree it has a much different ambiance than older East Coast cities of similar size.</p>
