<p>Hey guys, I thought I'd set this up because Middlebury doesn't have one yet and someone has to take the iniative! I'm from New York, public school, applying as a prospective psych major! Play varsity tennis, big on community service and really want to learn how to ski on the Midd slopes! </p>
<p>So come on and introduce you Midd RD Applicants - 2014 version!</p>
<p>Hi there…I’m a male from Ohio…was deferred from Chicago and Penn. Prospective international politics and economics major. Desperate to find a college that will accept me (besides OSU and Case!). not sure what my chances are here, but i know its definitely worth a try!</p>
<p>Hi.
Female, international (Bosnia), deferred from Brown.
Prospective psych major too 
Think it’s extremely lame that Midd got ride of the international need-blind policy.</p>
<p>Lame?? Midd has not been 100% need-blind for internationals for at least 9 years. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have a large international student population. Last year’s incoming class had 70 international students, which is more than 10% of the class — higher than just about every LAC, including those who claim still to be need blind for internationals.</p>
<p>I’m quite sure they were need-blind last year. </p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Northwestern - ‘Need-aware’ policy affects foreign applicants](<a href=“http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/2.13894/need-aware-policy-affects-foreign-applicants-1.1918043]The”>http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/2.13894/need-aware-policy-affects-foreign-applicants-1.1918043)</p>
<p>“Lame” referred to the fact that it kind of sucks when the policy changes right before your application year and I would obviously prefer it if they were need-blind. </p>
<p>I think Midd is great, and it is a lot better than the great majority of schools when it comes to international students. </p>
<p>(Correction of my last post: *rid)</p>
<p>No – the practice described in the Daily Northwestern has been Midd’s practice for many years and so an inference in a “changed” policy is misleading. The change last year was that Middlebury reduced its allocation of fin aid to entering internationals, yet it still matriculated 70 internatoinals, and continued its comimtment to sophs, jr, and sr internationals to meet their full need. The good news is that Middlebury obviously values internationals very much, and was able to have greater than 10% of its incoming class comprised of int’ls.</p>
<p>Hey there! I’m an international from Australia applying to Midd RD.
I love the outdoors, esp. skiing so I absolutely love Midd.
In regards to financial aid for internationals, I read that Midd is need-blind to the degree that resources permit, and then is need-aware? They were completely need-blind for internationals for one or two years I think but they lost a lot of money in the GFC so had to change policy. That’s what I read on their website atleast…</p>
<p>But good luck with the apps everyone! And hopefully we will be meeting each other in September!</p>
<p>northcountrycat, Midd just began the policy of being need aware for internationals last year. I promise you it has definitely not been for nine years - not that it matters for this year’s class.</p>
<p>UrbanS — not the case (not that it really matters, as you say!). Midd went public last year, and was applauded for being up front about this by announcing it would reduce fin aid to incoming internationals by $600k (and thereby announcing a non need-blind approach to internationals), but it was need aware for internationals for many years. I know this first hand. That said, Middlebury is still more committed to internationals (or so it seems) in that it matriculated 70 internationals in this past year’s incoming class. The fact that Middlebury can matriculate far more international students than colleges that still claim to be need-blind for internationals surely raises questions about those other colleges’ claims…especially since there are now so many excellent, excellent internationals applying to the top LACs (in addition to the Ivies). Makes one wonder why the international populations at those colleges remains fewer than 7%.</p>
<p>Sooner of later, the veracity of calling oneself “need blind” will be called into question and discussed openly. How can schools that claim to be need blind have less than 50% of its student body on aid, especially when these colleges cost more than $50k/year?</p>
<p>I agree that it is hard for any school to truly be “need blind” especially because if they weren’t aware in the least of financial aid, you wouldn’t have to check the box saying whether or not you were applying for financial aid on the application and it would be a totally different process independent of getting in. I don’t know of one school S applied to where he could not even send his application online without checking a box saying whether he was or wasn’t. Common sense suggests that if the admissions offices know a student is applying for financial aid or is not applying for financial aid – there is nothing blind about it except to the degree of how much. Of course, if you aren’t applying for fi-aid at all, does this put you in a separate pile completely?</p>
<p>I have to agree with North County Cat that it seems really hard to believe that schools who claim need blind and meet full need of internationals don’t have a greater population of them when there are so many who are highly qualified with perfect scores and the rest.</p>
<p>Northcat, so we bithagree that Midd was included in the list of schools describing themselves as “need blind” for internationals until last year? However, what we’re “arguing” is whether there was/is some conspiracy among those schools choosing to list themselves in such a manner. How do you know this first hand?</p>
<p>*sorry that’s supposed to say, “both agree” not “bithagree”. I’m typing on my phone and the mobile site won’t let me edit.</p>
<p>I think that the reason only a small number of international students are admitted to need-blind schools is because they have certain quotas.</p>
<p>Happy new year everyone! Even more reason to celebrate since apps are finally in! Hope to see you guys at Midd THIS year! :)</p>
<p>No – I don’t think Midd has advertised it was need blind for internationals; they may have been silent that they were not, but they did not deceive. They still managed to admit more than 10%/year. No matter! Hope they continue to be so committed to internationals.</p>
<p>Sorry NorthCat, but as of last year, this link ([Schools</a> Awarding International Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.internationalstudent.com/schools_awarding_aid/]Schools”>Schools Awarding International Financial Aid)) stated clearly that Midd was one of eight schools that were need blind </p>
<p>The Best Colleges and Universities
US Schools That Offer Need-Blind Admission to International Students - under a need-blind admissions policy, a college or university will admit students regardless of their ability to pay, and for any students that cannot afford the pricetag, the university awards scholarships and other institutional aid to make up the difference. There are now eight US schools that offer need-blind admissions to international students - Amherst College is the most recent to join this elite group, for school year 2008/2009. Basically, if you can get in, you can afford to go - they are:</p>
<p>MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts
Harvard University in Massachusetts
Princeton University in New Jersey
Yale University in Connecticut
Williams College in Massachusetts
Middlebury College in Vermont
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
Amherst College in Massachusetts</p>
<p>Of course, as we’ve already discussed, this no longer applies to Middlebury . . . I don’t know if any others have removed themselves from the list however.</p>
<p>Middlebury is the only one that has removed itself, I think.</p>
<p>More like Middlebury is the only one that’s being honest about it. Don’t you find it the least bit strange that each of these schools awards approximately the same amount of financial aid to roughly the same number of international students year in and year out? If they were truly need blind, those numbers would fluctuate more than they do.</p>
<p>There is no way Amherst, for example, can claim it will REDUCE financial aid in the coming years, remain no-loan, and be need blind as it has been. Can’t reduce budgets the size it is talking about without pulling back on fin aid. Perhaps it will only be more need aware for internationals, but when schools manage so closely to a budget because of wishing to reduce deficits, and say they will have the percentage of students on aid reduced, they have to be need aware to some extent. With Dartmouth and other top schools claiming they have big deficits, still, to address, it is hard to believe they will remain (as) need blind as they have been (or claimed). The whole understanding and definition of what is need blind is undergoing some long-awaited scrutiny.</p>
<p>Now THAT sounds like a great NYTimes article NorthCountyCat!</p>