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1. 1. www.dailygazette.com

   www.dailygazette.com/news/2008 - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/25/2008   Last Visited: 4/25/2008

   Mary Lou Bates, Skidmore College's dean of admissions and financial aid, said Skidmore has regularly increased its financial aid to students in recent years.
   
   She said the college is increasing the amount of financial aid in its operating budget from $25 million this year to $27 million in the 2008-09 academic year.
   
   The cost of attending Skidmore College has not discouraged applicants.Bates said that 7,420 high school seniors applied to the college, a 26 percent increase from the 5,900 applications of five years ago.
   
   Skidmore, a private liberal arts college of 2,400 students, will accept only 28 percent of its applicants for the coming school year.Bates said the incoming class will be a little more than 600 students.
   
   At Union College, about $31 million of the college's $130 million budget for 2008-09 is devoted to financial aid, up from $28 million in this year's budget, according to college officials.
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   Bates, of Skidmore, said everything from natural gas to health care has increased over the past year.She added that the college has also increased the salaries of faculty members in recent years.

2. 2. www.phillipian.net

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   Published on: 2/1/2008   Last Visited: 2/3/2008

   Mary Lou Bates, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Skidmore College, said that when a student tries to change his or her senior course load following early acceptance, "Skidmore picks what courses a matriculating senior can stay in… and what they can drop."
   
   She added that only five to ten admitted seniors out of 640 are able to make changes to their schedule.
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   Bates said that Skidmore looks for "validity, coherence and academic rigor in students' requests for changing courses.

3. 3. www.techvalley.com

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   Published on: 8/15/2006   Last Visited: 8/31/2007

   "I think national recognition builds on the exciting momentum we have felt at Skidmore and speaks for the academic excellence," Mary Lou Bates, dean of admissions and financial aid, told The Saratogian.