“When
I started looking into graduate schools, I wasn’t
sure that I was master’s material….But the
people I talked to at Skidmore were so enthusiastic about
my ideas—they were so excited by my excitement that
I started to believe I could do it.”
Judy Burke, San Luis Obispo, CA
There are only 60 students in the Master’s Program, and
because we work so closely with them as they plan and pursue
their educations, those of us who run the office tend to know
them well. When choosing students to bring into our community,
we look for people with the intellectual power required to handle
serious, self-directed graduate study and the intellectual passion
to make something magnificent out of that opportunity. Some
of our best students have been out of school for a long time,
and the strengths they’ve developed since don’t
always come across in their college transcripts. Consequently,
we pay special attention to the ways in which candidates write
and talk about what they’d like to study and why they’d
like to study it. We don’t ask candidates to take the
Graduate Record Examination (GRE), because we don’t believe
that it measures those qualities it takes to do well in this
program—the ability to take initiative and follow through
on challenges, the courage to choose the questions you care
most about and to chase them, the flexibility of mind to discover
connections between things that seem unrelated.
Creative Thought Matters.
Master of Arts Program
Skidmore College ·
815 North Broadway · Saratoga Springs, NY · 12866 mals@skidmore.edu · 518-580-5480
