Skidmore College is a private, liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. The college currently enrolls approximately 2,500 students and offers B.A. and B.S. degrees in more than 60 areas of study. Skidmore received 7450 applications in 2007–08 for the class of 2012, admitting 28% of its applicants. The median SAT score was 1320 and ACT score was 28. In 2006, Newsweek/Kaplan identified Skidmore as one of 25 'New Iv...
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Skidmore College is a private, liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. The college currently enrolls approximately 2,500 students and offers B.A. and B.S. degrees in more than 60 areas of study. Skidmore received 7450 applications in 2007–08 for the class of 2012, admitting 28% of its applicants. The median SAT score was 1320 and ACT score was 28. In 2006, Newsweek/Kaplan identified Skidmore as one of 25 'New Ivies,' an elite school providing an excellent education outside of the Ivy League. Skidmore is 46th in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report ranking of liberal arts colleges.
Skidmore has undergone several transformations since its founding in the early twentieth century as a women's college. The Young Women's Industrial Club was formed in 1903 by Lucy Ann Skidmore (1853-1931) with inheritance money from her husband, who died in 1879, and from her father, Joseph Russell Skidmore (1821-1882), a prosperous coal merchant, who died in 1882. In 1911,...
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