Skidmore College RD

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am planning to apply to Skidmore College. I really want to get in, but given that the college is highly selective, I want to know if I am good enough for the college.
I am an international student. (a female applicant from an underdeveloped country)

Courses:
I am currently doing the IBDP (International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme)
Mathematics Higher Level
Economics Higher Level
Social and Cultural Anthropology Higher Level
Physics Standard Level
English Language and Literature Standard Level
Spanish Ab initio Standard Level
(I usually get around 32-34/42, but if I convert them into GPA, I get around 3.7/4 and my grade 10’s grades are pretty good: 84% )

Extra Curricular:
-All the tons of extra curricular activities that IBDP makes you to do.
(Social service- Helping the children of orphanage, Sports: Gymnastics ad wall/rock climbing, Creativity: Visual Arts and many academic papers and an Extended Essay, a 4000 word research paper, on Economics)
-President of fund raising club
-Founder and President of Economics club
-Student Council Member
-Member of hiking club

Intended Majors:
Economics (main priority)
and one of:
Mathematics
Computer Science

I have not yet taken the SAT, but since the college extended my deadline, I am taking it on January. I am confident that I will get above 650/700+ in Math, but CR is what I am really struggling in. But I guess (and hope) I will get 1700+ -college’s average.
Please help!
Thank you!

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The thing about Skidmore is that it gets more competitive each year. I visited recently, and they spoke about getting a huge influx of applicants for the past two years, so I would expect the acceptance rates to get lower. I think that it is important that you listed your intended major as economics, because you have demonstrated an obvious interest in that throughout you extracurriculars and academics. I would very much recommend touring and interviewing and staying in touch with your admissions counselor, which could increase your chances.

When I visited, the admissions counselor told me that he’d never witnessed a person getting in or not getting into Skidmore based on their common app essay, which I thought was insane-- so grades, difficulty level of classes, recs and extracurriculars seem most important.

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Thank you so much @bklyn1998 . I have been corresponding with one of the faculty members. I am planning to mail few of others as well. I really hope they don’t consider SAT scores very important. I was actually relying a little bit on my common app essay. :(( But I’m hoping for the best.