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The Ada Comstock Scholars Program was established in 1975 under President Jill Ker Conway to enable women of nontraditional college age to complete their undergraduate degree. The program was designed to accommodate women at all stages of life, offering the opportunity to complete their education on a flexible schedule and providing special academic and social supports. Named for Ada Comstock 1897, the first dean of the college at Smith, Ada Comstock Scholars enrich the Smith community in myriad ways. Learn more about this unique program and the diverse women in the class.

Under an innovative initiative called Achieving Excellence in Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences (AEMES), Smith College reaches out to students who have expressed interest in those fields to increase their chances of success. AEMES scholars are selected as first years and are supported by the program all four years of their college experience. During those years, the scholars conduct research with a faculty adviser and participate in a peer mentoring program. Here's what two members of the research team have to say about the lab work they are doing with Laura Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences.

In case you missed it, here's the live chat Vanessa and Leigh hosted! They'll be doing one again really soon, so stay tuned! If your question didn't get answered, submit it to Smith by Smithies (link below). The awkwardness/technical difficulties end at 0:45. Ask Vanessa '17 and Leigh '18 from SmithBySmithies your questions! Submit them on Tumblr, the Class of 2020 Facebook page, or in the live chat. Ask us about anything, from housing and academics to social life and athletics. Vanessa is from San Diego, CA and is a Study of Women and Gender major. She lives in Baldwin House and went abroad to Denmark in the fall. She's working on a thesis about women in the funeral industrial-complex. /smithwithsophia Leigh is from Hawaii and is a Sociology major. She lives in Wilson house and plays tennis, ukulele, and violin. /smithieleigh Tumblr: /smithbysmithies Facebook: /smithclassof2020

The Praxis Internship Program guarantees a paid internship to all Smith students. Annually, more than 400 students take internships around the world. Students have interned in a variety of areas, from health care to education, communications to public policy, business to the arts, psychology to science. These internships help students build on their academic studies and provide the critical skills employers and graduate schools are looking for.

Learn how, thanks to a unique interchange between five esteemed educational institutions in the Northampton/Amherst area, Smith students get five colleges for the price of one.

Prospective students are often excited that Smith College is part of the Five College Community, but wonder how easy it is to get to the other four colleges. Well, here’s the answer.

Since its founding in 1871, Smith College has provided women of high ability and promise an education of uncompromising quality. A world-class faculty of scholars are fully engaged with their students' intellectual development, and an open curriculum encourages each student to explore many fields of knowledge. Mentors for scholarship, leadership and service, across all spectrums of endeavor, allow Smith students to observe different models of achievement, then set their own course with conviction.

Gold Key guides—unlike tour guides at peer colleges—aren’t paid. That may make them sound a little crazy to some, but it allows Smith’s guides to say what they want without a script.