As part of the Counseling Department's ongoing efforts to provide professional development to its staff members, I recently went on a tour of upstate colleges. These colleges included; Colgate, Hamilton, Rensselaer, Union, Skidmore, and Syracuse. The admissions representatives from the respective colleges took counselors through an in-depth look of their school, what it has to offer and why it is unique. The first stop on the tour was Skidmore, located in beautiful Saratoga Springs.