<p>i doubt if hypothesizing matters merely to his own knowledge would keep him a good house.</p>
<p>Modadunn was just cheerfully trying to give some general advice and a different perspective, which she often does for everyone’s benefit</p>
<p>I don’t even really understand your posts, but I remember you’ve posted elsewhere that Middlebury is only a ‘B School’ so I think your loyalty/knowledge of Midd is somewhat questionable</p>
<p>anyway, not my business, I just think Modadunn was just trying to be helpful</p>
<p>canadian</p>
<p>plz do understand that it was my classmate who logged in with my username that posted the “B school” thread you talked about.</p>
<p>I concur with him up to a point anyway, for his dictating ‘comparatively’. I love the school, yes, because I myself am not that a top-tier student to be gaining admittance into the top schools. does it necessarily mean my passion/allegiance should be questioned? we are talking about fact not fanaticism on the other hand. Is telling others that one’s parents aren’t as wealthy as bill gates doomed to implicate that he is not loving his parents?</p>
<p>I completely agree with your point that loyalty does not mean you have to lie about how rich your parents/school is…</p>
<p>it’s just that I disagree with you, I don’t think you could get a better education elsewhere…some schools may have more opportunities in a way I suppose, but I think that the personal attention at Midd would make up for that…I think Midd is at the absolute top and if I could get in ANYWHERE, Midd would still be my top choice</p>
<p>anyways…perhaps loyalty was the wrong word to use…but some of your past posts just seemed like Midd was a fallback for you, in which case it made me question your sincere love for the school</p>
<p>but I apologize if that is not true…these boards make misunderstandings inevitable…no facial expressions + stress of college applications = hard to communicate</p>
<p>but my main point was just that Modadunn’s advice was to get excited about other opportunities regardless of how much you love the school, which is sound advice in any situation, not just college applications :)</p>
<p>Canadianemigre, I appreciate the defense because it is true that I believe cautious optimism is prudent. When you merely look at the numerical odds that there will be nearly 1300 students (previous years’ numbers) on the waiting list and currently there are 26 spots open (and that’s if no phone calls went out when that number was first determined), the odds for anyone getting in – monied or not – is really quite slim.</p>
<p>You can certainly hope for the best, but it has my experience that even in hoping for the best in all things, you should also prepare for something different. I would love nothing more than for this entire thread to be filled with posts saying, “I got in!” but the reality suggests something different even if only from a mathematically statistical vantage point. </p>
<p>Did anyone see the Michael J Fox show last night about being an optimist? What I found most interesting is that some cultures believe far more in destiny/fate than optimism or the power of positive thought. So maybe I am more of a realist but I just think it’s best to look for the best in what you have at hand as well. THat doesn’t mean you stop hoping but to not look positively at what you have in front of you is equally un-optimistic in my point of view.</p>
<p>So no one off yet? Hope I get in with full aid 
Happy dreaming :P</p>
<p>Last year I think Middlebury offered spots on the waiting list to 1300 people but closer to 650 accepted, but your point is a good one, the odds of being offered admission from the waiting list are slim. I think winniethepooh sounds like a ■■■■■. If I’m wrong and she is for real did she at least apply early decision? If you are only going to apply to only one school there is no downside to applying early decision and you increase your odds of getting in.</p>
<p>I am figuring that someone on the wait list has <5-7% chance of getting in at this point. It’s not impossible and indeed, this has proven itself a unique year for sure when it comes to college admissions. Plus, I also have no idea how many people were even offered a place on wait list, let alone accepted it. However, Pea is correct on actual numbers.</p>
<p>Common Data Set for those enrolled fall 2008: 5.8%</p>
<p>Offered a place on wait list: 1812<br>
Accepted a place on wait list: 831<br>
Accepted/admitted from wait list: 49.</p>
<p>Common Data Set from those enrolled Fall of 2007: 0%</p>
<p>Offered a place on waitlist: 1231
Accepted a place on wait list: 603
Admitted/Accepted from wait list: 0</p>
<p>Common Data Set for those enrolled fall of 2006: 8.3%</p>
<p>Offered a place on Wait list:1200<br>
Accepted a place on wait list: 646
Admitted/accepted from wait list: 54</p>
<p>All I am saying is that I would be encouraging son to get excited about the next best option… because the truth is, it seems that people who apply to Middlebury also apply to similar schools. It also seems clear that even those who get into Middlebury and another similar school rack their brains trying to ascertain which is a better fit for them.</p>
<p>As our college counseling office LOVES to say: Everyone is at their first choice school come October of freshman year. :)</p>
<p>I’m gonna pull off the waitlist cos I got into Dartmouth so there’s one free spot.</p>
<p>If you’re pulling yourself off the waitlist, you’re not actually freeing up a spot. You never had a spot to begin with. The only people who could free up spots are those who were accepted and chose not to go.</p>
<p>people! lay off chlormel! this is like the 3rd post telling him/her that s/he is wrong…
i agree that waitlisted is different from accepted, but there is now a better chance for people on the waitlist to get in since there is 1 less person to compete with.</p>
<p>instead of correcting chlormel, can’t we just say congrats about dartmouth and have a great college experience? or do you all have to be rude about it?</p>
<p>S declined Midd. One more spot.</p>
<p>rhov… I dont see where people have been rude per say. The questions have been who said no to midd or if you’ve gotten off the waitlist (i.e., accepted). While it is clearly semantics, if you get off another school’s waitlist while waiting on several, your acceptance to that school is more of a “nevermind” than a “no” to other waitlists. As you point out, there were several posts declaring the Dartmouth acceptance and it was my feeling that most posts were, in fact, merely correcting the details/semantics and not exactly being rude. If anything, I was finding it annoying that the Dartmouth announcement was being made on every thread on Midd’s board, but can perfectly well understand the excitement… especially with having been on so many waiting lists… however, sometimes less is more.</p>
<p>For example: Laxtaxi’s son had an offer of admission and went somewhere else… THIS frees up a spot. My son declining Tufts offer of admission and Colgates offer opens up a spot (and one of his best friends got a call from Colgate on Tuesday so it was very exciting, another was accepted to Colorado College and another to Boston College).</p>
<p>Semantics, yes. But when you’re sitting in the waitlist, there is a huge difference between being an accepted student and pulling oneself off the waitlist.</p>
<p>yeah I don’t think it was so much against Chlormel as it was to prevent the hyper waitlistees on here who might misunderstand and think there is actually another spot</p>
<p>and congrats Chlormel!</p>
<p>i guess i don’t get it. . .let’s say a school accepts 1,000 kids, hoping to fill it’s freshman class of 400. that means 600 kids turn down their offer of acceptance, but it does not mean there are 600 new openings. it’s not a 1:1 relationship. . . .correct?</p>
<p>correct. You post had me looking at the accepted students java thingy thinking about the whole yield thing, which is a science unto itself. Just pulling off those numbers, for a class of 600 ( not including febs) Midd sent letters of admission to 1112 RD. This is after accepting 285 early decision. While that offer was binding, there are still some kids who for some reason wont be able to fulfill that obligation. So basically, it’s 1112 letters for 315 open spots. Midd apparently expects only 28.3% to accept their offer? Anyway… there’s lots of ways to look at it to determine the odds, but only do all this number crunching if you are completely bored and have absolutely nothing else to do. :-)</p>
<p>Son of friend accepted from waitlist on Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>Did he get any fin aid?</p>
<p>My son (not the one referred to above) was also called by admissions on Friday afternoon and offered a spot. We are waiting for info on financial aid and debating the merits of rural Vermont or American Honors on DC if in fact the money matters can be hurdled.</p>
<p>it looks like so far they are not taking the people who wrote in saying “I’ll definitely say yes” (at least in Caws7 and drSIM’s case)…kind of discouraging, it must be (a) the waitlist IS somewhat ranked or (b) more about rounding out the demographics at this point</p>
<p>anyways congrats all the same Caws7 and drSIM :)</p>