<p>So I come from a first generation college student, low income background. I am also Asian. I was looking at Middlebury's profile, and only 10% of the student are Asian. I am president of 4 strong clubs and captain of varsity swim team. Middlebury accepts around 5 kids from my school per year so acceptance rate is around 40%. However I am not in the top 10% but more like top 15% (which I know is badddddd).</p>
<p>Will the factors, excluding the part about me being Asian, help me out in the admissions process? I'm assuming a lot of the the students at Middlebury come from wealthy backgrounds of primarily Caucasian descent. </p>
<p>10% Asian isn't that high compared to a lot of Ivy peer schools. Would this help me out as well? I don't think Middlebury is too well known or popular among the asian community.</p>
<p>How will my being seen in the top 15% and not top 10% be viewed? Several kids in the scattergrams did get in without being in top 10%, more like top 15%.</p>
<p>yes i know the above was organized very pooorly</p>
<p>I think the fact that you live on Pluto will be a tremendous hook.</p>
<p>Seriously… talk about geographic diversity! :)</p>
<p>When you say you “come from a first generation college student” are you talking about yourself or did your parent (who you came from) graduate college? If it’s the former, I think that’s helpful. If it’s the latter, not so much. </p>
<p>Have no clue how large your school is, but five accepted a year is a pretty good stat to have on your side. Son is current freshman and did not end up in the top 10% (although I would guess he was pretty darn close), however he did take the hardest curriculum his HS offered, and did very well.</p>
<p>As for scattergrams, of all the schools son applied to, Middlebury was the most all over the map in terms of acceptance and even more so than some of the Ivy’s where you could visually see who the athletes or other seriously hooked applicants were. As it is, some of the “smartest” kids who applied to Midd haven’t gotten in, but scattergrams only take into account standardized test scores and grades and say nothing about student character (reflected in essays and recommendations). While no one can really say what goes on in admission offices, you’ll never know unless you actually apply.</p>
<p>I’m Asian and am attending Midd’s diversity weekend in a few days. They had invited me by email. So I’d guess that Asians are at least not considered ORMs.</p>
<p>My son got off the Midd wait-list and will start in Feb. He’s a white boy from the NE with fabulous grades and SATs, head of the newspaper with awards for best editorial in NYS, 4.0 GPA and IB program.Played some sports-running-but not a standout.Minimal community service-he’s an introvert. He was wait-listed at Harvard(his top choice and why he didn’t apply ed), Amherst, Tufts, Dartmouth, and Middlebury. He was rejected by Princeton and Williams. If we had to do it again, we’d scrub Harvard for ED somewhere. Just throwing it out there…</p>
<p>scattergrams ahhhh you have naviance too?!!? its the devil.</p>