@Barnardhopeful02 Barnard will use your unweighted GPA as most students take donors/AP courses and have high test scores. I’d say you have a very good chance of being admitted but you must also remember that Barnard has a high URM and Pell Grant community so these factors also aren’t distinguishing. What you want to do is be unique: come across as memorable.
@excanuck99: I don’t think I spoke to anything any differently than you did beyond my statement of the elimination of the Nine Ways of Knowing. That information came to me in some literature, thus my mention of the expansion of its reach and intent to serve the newest group of students entering the college.
Barnard is high on my daughter’s list, despite some recent small-minded rumblings by those who seek to suggest the single-gender/identity residential community is narrowly focused on same-sex issues almost to the exclusion of presenting a safe space for those without such a focus.
So far, so good goes her reception from the adcoms, if I look at the mail as an indication.
On average, how many credits/points do Barnard students take per semester? Would it be difficult to manage the Foundations requirement, a major, and a minor?
Let me get THE big question out of the way and then I will ask more specific questions. So as a Barnard student do you feel like you are discriminated against by students from Columbia? I just had to get THAT question out there because that is the first thing everyone says when I mention Barnard.
@bluebutterfly99 Barnard students 100% do NOT feel discriminated against by student from Columbia! Barnard is known to have more attractive, social and kind girls than the other undergrad schools at CU. Boys at Columbia LOVE Barnard women. Most Barnard girls date Columbia boys. Some CC girls get jealous of Barnard girls and occasionally you may see some hostility among freshman but that is very quickly overcome by sophomore year. I am a Barnard student and many of my best girl friends are in SEAS and CC. They encourage a lot of their family members to apply to Barnard, as they think the girls at Barnard are on the whole more down to earth and chill. Barnard women are known to be very savvy, cosmopolitan and intelligent, so no one looks down on Barnard at all.
@berrysmoothie17 on average, Barnard students take 15 credits per semester. The Foundations requirements, a major and a minor are all very easy to balance. Many times classes count for many different requirements and Barnard is super flexible. Curriculum is soooo much more flexible than the Core at CC. To each their own though! I love Barnard so far. The curriculum is amazing.
@BoundForSantaFe Barnard women take classes at Columbia U and Columbia students take classes at Barnard, so they are around the same level of difficulty. Barnard professors are also CU professors. It is honestly a world class education. You learn so much from some of the brightest professors of all time. I, personally, did not feel as if Barnard was way harder than high school, but I want to a top high school in the USA. I guess it depends on what high school you go to. I would say Barnard offers more flexibility and is thus less stressful than Columbia College or SEAS.
whats the process for taking students off the waitlist at barnard? i just sent all of my additional materials (like recs and a letter of continued interest) and im still hung up on barnard since it’s my dream school. i have committed to mount holyoke but i still really want to get off the waitlist. does anyone know someone who was admitted off the waitlist? how many people do you think they will take? when will i find out?
The college won’t know until May 1st whether there are open spaces. If there are, some students may start receiving calls in early May… but the process can continue through summer months.
Last year there were 1615 students waitlisted (36% more than the total who were admitted). Of that, 1340 accepted spots on the waitlist and 59 were admitted. That means that of the students who accepted their waitlist spots, there was a 4% admit rate. This is from the common data set: https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/cds_2016-2017_1.23.17_0.pdf