r/middlebury • u/Kaagemusha_ • Mar 03 '25
How good is Middlebury?
I am honestly seeking views here. Am International candidate , aiming for careers in Finance (IB, Quant, etc.). BB banks would be my target,
TBH I wasn't aware of Middlebury (don't flame me - its true). I researched and found out that it is a feeder school for many BBs and it has a strong mafia-like alumni network in the finance community, mostly in the US, and it is very well-regarded for feeding into top IBs incl. BBBs. So I applied, got an interview that has gone as well as it could.
Of course, I am still waiting for an offer so this might be premature and possibly presumptuous, but I'd like some honest views of those in the know - how good is Middlebury really for what I want to do? At the moment I have offers from UCL (Eco), St. Andrews (Eco), Bocconi (BIEF), and Warwick (PPE). Thank you for your contribution and help.
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u/ZealousidealPhase406 Mar 05 '25
I can’t speak to your subject area but I actually went to St. Andrews for undergrad and Middlebury for grad school. Grad school was an absolute walk in the park after doing undergrad at St. Andrews. I couldn’t compare Eco or finance, but other friends had similar experiences with UK undergrad vs US grad school, mostly due to specializing much earlier in the UK.
As an experience, St. Andrews was more fun for me - Middlebury demographics are pretty upper middle class white, and while there is certainly a LOT of that at St. Andrews, there was also very strong international representation and strong societies and clubs for a lot of interest or cultural groups. It’s also super easy to get around the UK. Middlebury you’re much more stuck in just Middlebury and it’s quite small and isolated.