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The fall 2020 acceptance rate for Skidmore College is 29%. That means, out of _____ applications received in 2020 , _____ students were offered admission. The number of males who applied was _____ vs the number of females which was _____.
What is the stereotype of students at your school?
Skidmore students are all pot loving hippies.
Read all 82 answers Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?
To some extent, there is a considerable minority at Skidmore consisting of wealthy marijuana smokers, but the majority of the student body is intelligent and intellectually diverse.
Read all 82 answers What are the academics like at your school?
I am a Women's Studies/Business double major, which gives me a unique perspective. As a business major, I am exposed to talented professionals, who have chosen to incorporate teaching into their careers. As a women's studies major, I am exposed to multi-faceted scholars and activists. Professors know my name, and I feel comfortable saying "Hi" to them outside of the classroom.
Class participation is not only common, it is often incorporated into the final grade. Unfortunately, I am not the most vocal member of most of my classes, but I enjoy visiting my professors during their office hours to discuss questions and my interest in the subject area.
Read all 77 answers What is your overall opinion of this school?
Skidmore is an academically strong liberal arts college with a strong amount of interest in the arts (music, studio art, theatre, english, etc.). Many students chose to double major in an art and a "practical" major such as a Chemistry and Music major, or a Business and Studio Art major. Skidmore puts an appropriate emphasis on interdisciplinary study, which allows the students to creatively approach a problem or situation by utilizing resources from every department.
Read all 76 answers Describe the students at your school.
My classmates are intelligent, creative and (often) artistic people,
Read all 76 answers What are the most popular student activities/groups?
a cappella performance
Read all 66 answers What should every freshman at your school know before they start?
Work hard, and use the professors, and faculty.
They are here to make sure that you succeed.
Read all 43 answers Here's your chance: Say anything about your college!
Skidmore truly is an academic environment with a strong commitment to creative thought. All of the teachers, professors and teaching assistants are strongly commited tosupporting academic excellence. In addition there is a campus wide commitment to social causes for the benefit of all mankind.
Read all 35 answers Describe how your school looks to someone who's never seen it.
Skidmore College exemplifies the ideal liberal arts institution because it enables students to develope critical thinking skills through hands on work, projects, independent studies, lectures or discusions, while providing a terrific social scene for all of its students in extra-curriculum activities, parties, the dining hall, and dorm life.
Read all 13 answers What kind of person should not attend this school?
If you do not have an open mind, do not attend Skidmore College. If you do not want professors who will invite you over to their homes in the beautiful town of Saratoga Springs, do not attend Skidmore College. If you do not want to make friends who are up to date on the world around them, find joy in a healthy debate with their peers, or simply want to take a walk in the North Woods with you, do not attend Skidmore College.
Read all 10 answers What do you brag about most when you tell your friends about your school?
the food, the community, the artsy people
Read all 9 answers Describe your favorite campus traditions.
It is one of the best Liberal Arts Colleges. It is best known for its Theater program as well as Music and Fine Arts. Many students on campus also favor the English classes. The campus is gorgeous and it is in a great location. The school is accomadating all around.
Read all 9 answers What do you consider the worst thing about your school? Why?
There are a lot of cliques and group-based friends around campus. This makes it hard to infiltrate other groups once you have established a friend base.
Read all 9 answers What's unique about your campus?
The size! It has really affected many of the things I love about Skidmore: its classroom intamacy, my social life, and the level of comfort and welcomeness I feel on campus.
Read all 8 answers What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?
I wish that I had known what a burden it would be for my family to continue paying the tution. I wish I had known all options regarding financial aid, grants, scholarships etc etc.
Read all 7 answers What's the most frustrating thing about your school?
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
Read all 5 answers What kind of person should attend this school?
Skidmore college's motto is "Creative Thought Matters." Ideally a Skidmore student is creative and a true liberal arts student in that they enjoy a wide variety of subjects. Many students here are interested in some form of the arts, and do not want to sacrifice between their artistic side and their academic side.
Read all 5 answers What is the stereotype of students at your school? Is this stereotype accurate?
White, rich entitled. Couldn't be more wrong. We have great mix of identities from people of color to whites, from poor to rich, from straight to homosexual, it is all really great.
Read all 4 answers Tell us about the sports scene on campus.
Because we are division III, we have no scholarships for athletes, rather every athlete is a scholar with a focus on academics. As a school we do not have a football or a track team, though our riding team is one of the top in the country. Basketball games are immensely fun, we were actually voted on ESPN for having one of the best games of 2011 due to a basketball game that went into 7 overtimes which Skidmore won. Athletes are just regular students here, it is not as though there is a scene that glorifies them. That being said, sports are respected here just not as the end-all-be-all of the school.
Read all 3 answers What's the Greek scene like?
There isn't one! Students unite around other commonalities (and differences)! The social life instead revolves around clubs, performance groups, and even classes. Lack of Greek life was a big draw for me when I applied to Skidmore. I think that because of it Skidmore is a much more inclusive and open community.
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