Thank you for this share, and congrats to your D for making it official. Welcome!
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So whereâd we net out? @Pl1277 I see committed⊠@bfahopeful? @HoldensMom? @sfmomma @wildflowermom @tablamom âŠ
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We loved our visit, undeterred by snow in April, but it came down to chasing a vision he had many years ago of going to school in Boston. Pls invite me 4 years from now to celebrate and enjoy a glass of wine with you all on that wonderful lawn overlooking the Hudson!
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I was so impressed by the intellectual and artistic vision that President Botstein holds for the college and I imagined that this climate of rigorous inquiry and innovative dialogue would permeate the college atmosphere. Def the kind of college I would have thrived in lol but Iâm not the one going to college and ultimately ds felt that his math needs, the other portion of his double degree program, would be better nourished at the college he eventually committed to. His meeting with a member of the math faculty there confirmed this for him. Congratulations and best of luck to your student. Heâs going to get an amazing education there.
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Yes! Our son committed to Bard and proudly wore his Bard shirt on college day at school this week.
On the way to work yesterday, on the classical station, I heard his teacher at Bard Conservatory, Shai Wosman, performing. It was such an affirmation about his decision.
Just saw today that Bardâs requiring all students to be vaccinated for the coming yearâa move we applaud and are relieved about. The future looks brightâcongrats to all!
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My daughter committed to Bard too. 
(As for my name - it was an older child chasing a BFA which is now completed; for current senior Bard is perfect for her and offers both majors and the artistic vibe).
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Such clarity. Congrats.
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Oh fantastic news about vax requirementâ and that your son is committed + proud. I do wish the Brad swag was better. That Raptor, man.
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Going to have to change your handle to mfahopeful 
And hooray to your D!
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I havenât been on CC in years, but my daughter, who graduated from Bard in 2015 as a vocal performance major, just got into the grad program of her dreams. Her dad and I were not involved in any of that process, of course, but it got me to thinking about her path to this point. Bard was a big part of that. As anyone who researches the school knows, itâs not your average liberal arts school. And the process of choosing an undergrad program has become so ridiculously fraught, I thought Iâd add Dâs story to the mix.
Like a lot of students considering Bard, my daughter was a complicated kid: excellent student and musician who loved being stretched intellectually. Alternately super confident and self-critical. Anxiety prone. Very urban and outdoorsy. (Weâre from a large midwestern city.) She was irritated by her mainstream peers, but wasnât anti-social by any means, just restless for something more in a way that was really hard to define when she was 17.
Bard delivered big time academically. She had fantastic teachers who fueled her creative and intellectual fires. (She almost switched to being a math major, and all but double majored in lit + music.) But it took a long, hard time to find âher peopleâ socially.
She gradually arrived at the conclusion that since Bard is a mecca for heady, edgy introverts like her, of course they tend to feel isolated more than at places with lots of cheerful extroverts (like my other daughter who ended up in California, naturally, ha).
Fast forward. She is now 29 and was just admitted into the performer-composer MFA at CalArts with a generous merit scholarship. She was a high achiever in opera training and performance at Bard and afterward, but sheâs been on a personal quest to blend that with experimental art pop (surprise surprise). She is over the moon.
TLDR: Bard was (and probably still is) wonderful, infuriating, beautiful, and harsh. She learned and grew from all of it. No regretsâŠand she/we felt that way long before the grad school acceptance.
[Ok, now just realized this was last yearâs thread. Oh well, there it is.]
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