Burlington Free Press.com | Colleges Court Prospective Students

Burlington Free Press.com Colleges Court Prospective Students: “MIDDLEBURY — You want to go to the college of your choice, so you work like a dog: You labor to keep up your grades and your extracurriculars as you do all the admissions essays and the interviews and the paperwork for Colleges A, B and C.

“Then you are accepted and the tables turn.

“Now the admissions officers have to work like dogs to get you to choose their school. For months, you were doing your best to please them. Now, they’re courting you. So it goes in April, as colleges in Vermont and across the country vie to match themselves up with prospective students by May 1, the deadline for admittees to declare where they’ll enroll.

“For Jesse Mirotznik, of the Brooklyn borough of New York, it will be either Middlebury College or Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He’ll check out Hopkins next week and won’t commit until he does, but Middlebury seemed to have made a good impression: ‘It’s a really nice campus,’ he said. ‘People seem very friendly.’ “