<p>Saw a bunch of other college threads with this topic, so I figured why not create one for Middlebury.</p>
<p>Years ago I turned down Bowdoin, Trinity (CT), Wake Forest, Holy Cross, and took myself off the WL at Duke.</p>
<p>turned down Amherst, Trinity, Bucknell, CT College, Bowdoin, NYU, Tufts, GW, off the waitlist at WashU.</p>
<p>turned down Tufts, Colgate, SUNY Geneseo, Muhlenberg, Fairfield, and Lycoming and took myself off the waitlist at Brown. But none of that matters now cause I'm sooo excited about Midd!!</p>
<p>my daughter turned down Beloit, Case Western, College of Wooster, second year transfer at Cornell. Middlebury is by far the best fit.</p>
<p>I forgot; she didn't pursue waitlist at Carleton.</p>
<p>some people made some tough decisions</p>
<p>kenyon, grinnell, carlton, davidson</p>
<p>I also turned down Kenyon and Carleton, as well as Tufts and Bowdoin.</p>
<p>My daughter turned down Emory, Michigan, U of FL honors and Duke</p>
<p>turned down:
100,000 scholarship to Johns Hopkins
Tufts
SMFA, boston
Wesleyan
Kenyon
Oberlin
Reed
Hampshire
Bard</p>
<p>Berkeley, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Wake Forest</p>
<p>Turned down Columbia, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Bucknell, Union, and took her name off the Princeton alternate list.</p>
<p>Although the topic doesn't come up in conversation much/at all, I've learned so far that some of my dormmates here turned down Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams and Stanford. I'll be the first to admit I was surprised by a few people's decisions.</p>
<p>One year ago, </p>
<p>-Washington University in St Louis
-Bowdoin
-Tufts
-NYU
-Trinity
-Bucknell
-Connecticut College
-Hamilton
-George Washington University</p>
<p>Columbia?
why?</p>
<p>wow...turned-down lists are scary
what is so special about middlebury that is worth turning down even duke and stanford?? (i know middlebury is a great school)</p>
<p>im guessing
that if someone wants to mahor in a language
thats a reason to turn down the ivy leagues and stanford, since middlebury has crazy good languages (thats what i hear)</p>
<p>they're very different types of schools, in very different environments. I don't think you should make a choice of school just based on ranking. Re: Duke and Stanford--these are large undergrad., with important big graduate schools. Middlebury is basically an undergrad school. at least during the school year. also, there's probably a much smaller teacher/pupil ratio at Middlebury. Lots of reasons for people to choose it over other schools; it really depends on what an individual wants.
Maybe the financial aid was better?</p>