Skidmore College Top Questions

What's the most frustrating thing about your school?

abra

The social life could be disappointing

Yasmin

It's small so the social scene tends to get cliquey and homogenous. The dry-free,substance free campus hinders the social life and there is no longer theme housing among the apartments on campus and dorms.

Zoe

the size, the weather, the lack of gay community, the rural area

Rainey

Its in upstate NY and out of the way of everything besides canada. transportation home is not the easiest or cheapest thing, and i am from new jersey

Kezia

The amount of money many of the students (and thus families of students) have. Many don't have to pay for their own groceries, or have unlimited meal plans, or have their laundry professionally washed/dried. Many drive cars that their parents paid for. A lot of students are able to simply ask their parents/families for more money whenever they need it, which can be difficult to deal with when you're paying for half of your education by yourself and taking out loan after loan.