<p>I just visited Middlebury,Williams, and Amherst. My favorite was amherst... i was very dissapointed in middlebury! i was expecting to love it but i found it too much focused on being "organic" and not enough on the education. Was this just a one time thing of my info session and tour guide or is that the general atmosphere there- (hemp, wool socks and birkenstocks... ect...)??????</p>
<p>so you're basing your entire impression of the college on your tour guide?</p>
<p>yeah... i didn't get that impression at all.</p>
<p>no... i am basing it on the information session, the tour guide, the people i saw at the tour... everything that i learnt at my visit seemed to point to that. Which i found very odd becase middlebury had been one of my top choices!!!</p>
<p>what else should i base it on. ?</p>
<p>The other 2000 people at Midd.</p>
<p>I didn't get that impression either.</p>
<p>Dear lord, that isn't the impression that I got of it at all. Middlebury is known for having students that look like they stepped right out of the J. Crew catalog. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a really preppy school; everyone is very down to earth and very...real, for lack of a better term. It is a campus that is very environmentally aware, but that's not what it's all about either.</p>
<p>At Middlebury, you'll get one of the best educations anywhere. This is a school where I see few negatives. Top notch, and you can take that to the bank.</p>
<p>People wear wool socks. They wear Birkenstocks. They wear hemp. But there are also people who pop their collars and never leave home without their cable-knit sweaters. It's just clothing, and thankfully during the winter months, most people are too cold to care much about fashion. As elkhy said, it's a very environmentally aware campus. This is not a bad thing, and it does not detract from the academic environment in the slightest (quite the opposite). Plus, this is Vermont. Of course it's organic! I'd be curious to know what you saw/heard that made you think this.</p>