Vassar or Skidmore?

notanengineer
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:54:54 +0000

I haven’t been to Skidmore but I toured Vassar this weekend. I would agree on the food, was unimpressed. Poughkeepsie isn’t the best college town, but there are some decent stores/restaurants there, and most students say there isn’t much reason to leave Vassar (and they may say that because there’s nothing to do in Poughkeepsie, but I think there is some truth to saying that there is a lot to do on the Vassar campus). Socially, Vassar seems pretty strong. The dorms seem to do lots of fun stuff/parties.

Not trying to talk you into Vassar since I haven’t seen Skidmore, just offering another perspective. I personally would go with the stronger academics since there aren’t too many negatives for Vassar.