@Illinoisparent12 As I’ve posted before (forgive me @GoldPenn) last year my D was deferred ED1 at Midd, ultimately accepted RD (after I convinced her to submit an art portfolio which the AO mentioned in a handwritten note on the bottom of her acceptance letter), accepted RD by Williams, Haverford, Vassar, Grinnell (w/merit), Colby (as a Presidential Scholar, no money, but research opportunities), WL’d at Bates and rejected by Bowdoin and Wesleyan. She had a 4.0 GPA, lopsided SATs, very high verbal, just okay math, and did submit them everywhere. Holistic admissions are truly unpredictable.
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Thanks! He’s got a few good options now and waiting to here back from more. Best of of luck to your D21!
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Again, rowing is a club sport at Middlebury. While it is an intercollegiate club sport, it is a club sport, not a varsity sport. They don’t recruit crew from high school, only from Midd students, and all recruiting paperwork available on their club’s website is for existing Midd students. If you compare that to, say, baseball, or to, say, rowing at Bates, you will see the difference.
Rowing is a great EC, but the rowing coach will not look over any applicant’s rowing stats, will not assign them to band A, B, or C, and will not request to accept X number of students from each band. At least not officially.
Can and will the coach make a difference in admissions? I don’t know. Is it worthwhile for the OP to contact the coach about rowing at Middlebury? It can’t hurt, especially if the OP simply asks about rowing possibilities at Midd. Maybe the coach has some push.
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@applicant7864 you have well-balanced profile which sounds competitive. As you’ve pointed out, your GPA is on the lower side. It would be ideal if you could improve it with a strong finish this year and a solid first quarter senior year. I’d say course rigor and GPA are the most important aspects of the application, much more than a standardized test score. And, as a wise CC veteran shared with me earlier in the Fall, be clear why you would be a good fit for Midd. Show, not tell.
Having a list of many schools you would be happy to attend is key, and work on those applications in advance in the event that things don’t work out. My D wrote many supplemental essays she never submitted - but knowing that Midd is a really a reach for most students was a motivating factor to have other options ready to go.
Wishing you the best of luck.
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I think you have as got a shot as any. It really depends on whether you’re the piece if the puzzle that fits with the rest, and none of us know that.
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@notigering @applicant7864 ED admissions to Middlebury are usually pretty high - higher than 45%. However, it is unlikely that the percent will be this high this year. It is unlikely that they will fill 65% of their class from ED applicants, which is what a 45% admission rate from over 1,000 ED applicants will do.
Last year ED admissions were so high since they have very few ED applicants - a total of 643 from both ED1 and ED2. This year they have 1041. I would guess that the number of ED applicants next year to Middlebury will be similar to that or to 2019, which was 926 ED applicants.
In any case, once recruited athletes and Posse are removed, acceptance rates for ED are lower. Even last year they were only about 35%, while in 2109 they were no more than 27%. Still a lot better than RD.
Aside from that, I will restate that if @applicant7864 is in the top 10% of their class, that would mean that they are a lot more competitive than their GPA would suggest - probably similar to a person with a GPA close to 3.9.
While Midd does nor recruit rowing, it is still a strong EC, as is being an accomplished musician. So I do think that the OP is strong candidate for Middlebury, and I do think that strong candidates do have a much higher acceptance rate ED (at least 2X). A strong candidate applying ED is more attractive than a strong candidate applying RD, because bird in the hand and all.
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Do you mean those who applied to enter in the fall of 2019? Didn’t 831 apply (based on the CDS)?
Their press release had a total of 9,750 applications, of which 8,824 were RD. Perhaps 95 were deferred to RD, so they weren’t counted in the press release as RD applicants, since the only counted applications sent RD, while in the CDS, they weren’t considered ED applicants. There is a similar 60 applicant discrepancy between the 2018 press releases and the CDS.
This makes sense, considering that 75 students were accepted ED2 in 2019. Since ED2 does not include recruited athletes or Posse kids, they should have a lower acceptance rate than ED1 applicants. If there were initially 831 ED applicants, that would put acceptance rate of ED2 applicants at 42%, which seems high if this does not include recruited athletes and other groups. If there were 926 applicants, ED2 acceptance rate would be 28%, which is much more likely, considering that RD acceptance rate that year was 12%.
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