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| Major: Undecided (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Female | This person cares more about Surrounding City than the average student. | Intelligence:
Quite Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: 1320 | | Lowest Rating
Social Life D | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Broken Spirit, SnootyDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful, Self Absorbed | Highest Rating
Excess Competition A+ | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | A- | Faculty Accessibility | A | | Useful Schoolwork | B | Excess Competition | A+ | | Academic Success | A | Creativity/Innovation | A- | | Individual Value | A | University Resource Use | B | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | B- | Friendliness | A | | Campus Maintenance | A- | Social Life | D | | Surrounding City | D | Extra Curriculars | C+ | | Safety | A+ |
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came to Skidmore expecting to be academically less sophisticated than
my classmates because I attended a large and impersonal public
high school (and most students at Skidmore graduated from small,
intimate, and intense private/boarding schools). As the semester progressed
I found myself wishing that I were being challenged more
often. Skidmore does not provide students with a challenging
environment. The courses were not challenging, and the class
discussions, which are supposed to be the main attraction of
the Skidmore academic experience, lacked in substance and meaning.
The class discussions were often shallow and highly idealistic.
Skidmore is truly a highly idealized liberal bubble. While
I am as liberal as they come, i found it
difficult to function and thrive in the 'Skidmore bubble' because
it was so unrealistic. Everyone agrees with you constantly,
so you forget that the real world consists of people
who do not or do not have the means to
be able to view society and life as you do.
Skidmore ultimatley forces students to lose touch with reality.
While some coin this loss of touch the 'college
experience', I found it unfulfilling and boring. While some
of my course work was interesting, once I realised that
the professors expected nothing more than babble and BS from
their students I lost a great deal of motivation.
I ended my semester with straight A's, which required very
little effort on my part. If you are searching
for a truly meaningful and rewarding academic experience, do not
go to Skidmore. I constantly felt like I
was on an all-inclusive, never ending resort vaction, or at
summer camp with books. If you liked summer camp
or boarding school, you drive an expensive car, and you
are too easily amused, this might be the place for
you. Students were rich and uninteresting, and most got
into Skidmore due to the fine reputations of their boarding
schools, as opposed to any substantial academic or intellectual qualifications.
The social life at Skidmore is non-existent. This
is a true liberal arts school, so it does not
have fraternities or a football team. Ever since the
security tightened and the campus went “dry” (the college's response
to the #2 ranking for marajuana use), people are very
careful about their drug/alcohol use. Campus parties occasionally occur
in the upperclassmen apartments, but they are coined as 'not
enjoyable' unless you are very very intoxicated. The parties
run dry or are busted up by midnight anyway, so
the party scene is lame and not well established.
The only other parties that occur are in off campus
“sports houses”, which are virtually fraternities. If you do
not enjoy hanging out with the lacross team and police
presence by midnight, you have no other option but to
drink in your dorm room. This gets very boring
and depressing. No one is really involved with the
lackluster extracurricular activities either. The occasional on campus dances
were amusing, but they too get old fast. The
social life, or lackthereof, is very repetitive and depressing for
those who realize that they are stuck in a suburb
in the middle of nowhere. Saratoga's history is interesting
for about one day, but after that students realise that
Saratoga Springs contains one very nice main road surrounded by
miles of farms and trailerparks. Skidmore is not fun
unless you like to sing in acapella bands or desire
to feel safe and isolated throughout college. I left
because I wanted college to open my eyes to new
worlds and experiences, as opposed to closing me off from
actual society as Skidmore did.
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