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There's far more diversity than the stereotypes let on, but there are significant populations of all of the above. People interact across group lines a fair amount, but sometimes I wish they did so to a greater extent. From what my friends tell me though, Middlebury is actually really good in this regard (i.e., people mix regardless of socioeconomic background, social status, etc.).

Accurate but misleading; firstly, not everyone fitted into one of these boxes, but many ostensibly fill two, three or four. Second, the Midd people I knew there and have come to know subsequently are generally warm, open, interesting people who've done lots of interesting things. So the trick is to look beyond the stereotypes and actually get to know people. You will be at school with 2400 of your closest friends, give or take.

Sort of, but I have experienced plenty of diversity.

For the most part

The steretype is relatively true-- but there are a lot of international kids and even though the school population is pretty homogenous, the kids are still really interesting and fun and diverse in different ways. Kids have really wide-spanning interests and will surprise you all the time just when you think you have them stereotyped.

Well, there's definitely a grain of truth in all I said. There are a lot of preppy kids, but you don't have to be that way at all; you don't even have to see them at all really, unless you're an econ major and then, well, I'm sorry for you. We do have a lot of econ majors. There are also the outdoorsy ones who sometimes sleep in tents during the get outside week in the middle of snowy, freezing winter. We are all in pretty great physical shape; everyone goes to the gym. That is very true (except for the outdoorsy kids). People are generally good looking. People are more smart than at, say, a state school, but you can find all sorts. I know barely anyone who utilizes the golf course during the months it can be used. I'd say 80 percent of campus takes advantage of the ski slopes, but alpine and nordic. Our creative writing program kind of sucks, and it was supposed to be what lured me here. Don't mistake the college for the writing school or conference. We Do have great teachers, but there is no major and there is but one poetry professor. sometimes i feel like i'm in harry potter, I mean we play quidditch and the chapel bells are haunting.

They are to a certain extent. That faction certainly exists. But there's enough of a balance of kids here that it isn't too overpowering.

I don't think that we work too hard; and I don't think that the majority of the student body that cares about the environment is just trying to be trendy

To a certain extent.

To an extent, yes, because the school does take a lot of prep-school kids, however, there's only a small subset of those kids that fit the spoiled, snobbish, and obnoxious stereotype.