See Middlebury’s official announcement below:
Middlebury College continues to attract a strong pool of applicants from across the United States and around the world. For the third consecutive year, the College has broken its previous record with 13,297 total applications for the Class of 2027, up about two percent over last year’s total of 13,028. Middlebury’s undergraduate applications have increased by 36 percent over the past five years.
“We feel fortunate to experience another year of high interest and continued growth in applications from a wide range of students,” said Dean of Admissions Nicole Curvin. “The Admissions team is currently engaged in evaluation of another record-high pool of applicants for the Class of 2027 and 2027.5.”
Applicants for the Class of 2027 include 11,971 regular decision candidates and 1,326 who applied under the first and second rounds of the early decision program. Early decision applications increased by about 28 percent over last year’s 1,039 applications, while regular decision applications saw a slight increase over last year’s 11,913. A total of 516 students were accepted through the early decision programs including the first cohort of QuestBridge Scholars.
The overall class will include 630 students for fall enrollment and 105 who will start in February 2024.
Decisions for regular admissions will be sent to students on March 18.
TTA Takeaway: The Middlebury results are an early indicator of this year’s admissions trends: increasing applications and continued interest in top liberal arts colleges, as well as a commitment to QuestBridge and other programs that recruit first-generation and low-income students.
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4 replies on “Just released: Middlebury College acceptance rate”
82% of Middlebury’s class of 2027 admitted ED. And please give us a break on the ‘Class of 2027.5’, Middlebury! That will never be a ‘thing’. LAC’s- and Tulane- are doing their best to limit the possibilities of kids wanting to apply RD by using them as safeties and giving them options anymore. But, playing devils advocate, the schools seem justified in fighting back with kids applying to 20-30 schools nowadays. These kids are just lottery players and egotists.
Thanks for your comment. We don’t consider college applications a “lottery” as our students do the hard work of standing out once they are in range of a school by old fashioned hard work and scholarly heft.
We agree, however, that the whole process is incredibly confusing. There is so much “noise” out there and that can be incredibly stressful for teenagers going through the process.
It’s a “thing” at Middlebury. They do it to try and make sure the students who start in February feel equally valued and not lost in the shuffle when they start. No need to hate on it.
But I agree that the current situation where you basically have to ED is unfortunate. It’s a doom cycle b/c if you don’t know where you want to go and don’t feel comfortable ED’ing, you have to apply to a ton of schools b/c things are very unpredictable. I have a freshman at a LAC and a high school senior. The freshman got bumped to regular with both his ED1 and ED2. The senior didn’t know where he wanted to go and didn’t apply ED. Both had very unpredictable results with their RD apps. Both were rejected by some schools that, on paper, seemed like safeties and/or targets. Both got in to a few that seemed like remote chances.
I think the poster’s point was that If kids are doing the ‘hard work’ then they will know if they’re in range of a school and shouldn’t be applying to more than a dozen schools. And many many kids are getting into schools early decision but keeping their regular decision applications up for ego boosts. Some do it whether or not their apps were ED or EA.