Student Application

The application to become a member of Skidmore’s Honors Forum involves your on-line submission of a personal statement and a faculty recommendation. The student, faculty, and administrative members of the Skidmore Honors Forum Council will carefully review your personal statement, faculty recommendation, and Skidmore transcript. They are looking for students who have a passion for learning and who will use their Honors Forum membership to enrich the community. It is important that you treat your personal statement seriously and write it well. It is also important that you choose a faculty recommender whom you believe can speak first to your specific academic strengths and second to the personal qualities that will make you a contributing member of Skidmore’s Honors Forum.

Honors Forum membership is competitive and is limited to approximately ten per cent of the first-year and sophomore classes. Please think carefully about your personal statement. In considering whether to apply, you should look at the Honors Forum website, especially the Member’s Guide and past newsletters, to see whether Honors Forum membership is for you.

Please list the contributions you have made to the academic and/or co-curricular life at Skidmore.


Personal Statement: In a carefully planned and edited personal statement not to exceed 250 words, tell us what excites your intellectual life and how you are currently pursuing the life of the mind. Mention the influence of academic projects you have undertaken, courses, memorable teachers, studies, projects - either in high school or at Skidmore - and current intellectual goals (majors, minors, international study, collaborative research, independent studies, co-curricular projects, and activities, etc.) that Honors Forum membership may help you achieve.  In your closing paragraph, tell us how you would use your active engagement in Honors Forum membership to serve the Skidmore academic and residential community.

 
 

PLEASE NOTE: Your application must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a Skidmore faculty member. Please ask your faculty nominator to use the Skidmore Honors Forum Recommendation form which can be found on our Honors Forum web site at: http://cms.skidmore.edu/hf/faculty/forms/faculty-recommendation.cfm

For more information on the Honors Forum, contact Prof. David Vella, Director, Honors Council: x5291