The thread is for those, who applied to Skidmore as ED II.
Good luck on admissions, everyone!
Hey! You can post in our Skidmore RD thread here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/skidmore-college/1948028-skidmore-class-of-2021-rd-official-thread-p1.html I totally forgot to include ED II in the title and description. It’s better this way since the population of ED II applicants is not much. So you are welcome to post in our thread! Good luck
My son applied to Skidmore ED2. We really liked the school. Everyone was friendly and down-to-earth, non-pretentious. They seem to have great music as well as science, a combo that is not always easy to find. He sat in on a couple of classes. He’s very creative musically and I wanted him to have a lot of musically inclined students around him. Some schools didn’t have much of a music program, so we thought they would not attract such students. He was not admitted to Wesleyan ED1, another school with a creative bend. We know a couple of girls from my son’s school who are at Skidmore, and really like it. I also met a mother recently whose son is a First Year there and “is thrilled”. What is it that you all see in Skidmore that made you apply ED?
The couple of things I don’t like are the website (yuck, hard to navigate, annoying font) and the fact that for all their supposed creativity, they don’t have electronic sites to set up campus visits or check application status.
Of course, my son should be posting here, but he is totally not type-A, and doesn’t seem to have a worry in the world, and he already has senioritis.
I applied to Skidmore because it provides an option to take Double-major. I mean, it gives really good education on “artsy” classes like Music, Theatre/Drama etc and “Nerd” classes like Engineering, Computer science and so on. My dream was always to study Music&Computer Science at the same time so Skidmore is my first choice college.
I’m an international student and my family can’t afford education in U.S. and since Skidmore gives really big amount of Fin.Aid to int’l students, I applied to it as an ED II applicant.
I’m an RD applicant, but I guess it would be fun to just answer the question. Like @atonitaku47 said, I love how you can combine two completely different fields together. Skidmore’s course catalogue is amazing. I’m interested in taking Computer Science & Theater, because I’ve been somewhat involved in those two my whole life! The relatively small community can also be an advantage where you can get to know a larger amount of people on a deeper note compared to knowing little about a lot of people at a very large school.
Creative Thought Matters!
Two more days! Are you nervous? Excited?
Hi @sca1999 ! They’re all both nervous and excited haha. And I am for them too! I hope your son gets into Skidmore! Good luck to you guys
@sca1999 Yes, I’m very nervous. I hope I’ll get the letter on time, because some colleges send letters later (2-3 days)
Wish you all good luck.
Does anyone know at what time do you usually receive letter from Skidmore?
should be tomorrow (15th) @atonitaku47
Probably tomorrow. I understand why they may not send them today.
Do you guys know exactly when tomorrow ??
Probably anytime from 4PM-5PM ET
Thanks. I sure hope he gets in too. The other thread is saying the the letter comes by snail mail. Is that true? We were expecting an email.
Hello @sca1999 . Yes, what you are saying is right. What I’m trying to emphasize is that international students always get an email first, after which their post mail is received 1 or 2 weeks later. By then they already know their decisions.
But domestic applicants have always received their decisions via post mail as a tradition particular to Skidmore College. I was just saying they may decide to send it via email if they want. But expect the snail mail to arrive.
Haha however it comes, you get your decision! Which is great.
Good luck to all of you today
does that mean we will be officially notified a day later? I am in Georgia and 4pm est is 1 am here which is not 15th of feb but 16th. this is very important for me cuz i have some paperwork to do today and i was assuming i was gonna hear from skidmore today at latest and otherwise can affect the sitiuation.
Good luck to everyone! Let us know if you’re admitted :3 Gonna meet our potential classmates.
I will be writing even if i get rejected (after digesting ofc) but here is my suggestion lets make another thread for upcoming applicant. we can write there if we got accepted/rejected and our SATs ECs scholarships etc. this can give an idea for future prospective students. I would like that kind of thread if i were them. so lets do it ha?
@iambibliophile Sounds awesome! Let’s do it!