***Barnard 2021 ED Results Thread***

Colleges and Universities A-Z Barnard College
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Hey guys! If you could copy and paste this in the replies I’m sure a lot of potential applicants would appreciate it.

[B][size=4][color=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size][/b]
[B][size=4][color=#FFA500]Decision: Deferred[/color][/size][/b]
[B][size=4][color=#FF0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size][/b]

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Weighted GPA:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details):
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details):
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details):
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details):

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflections:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

General Comments (if any):

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I think we should wait until spring to do this just so that we can add in where else we were accepted/rejected

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@snbay6 Since we applied ED, we have to withdraw all our other applications - we won’t known whether we would’ve been accepted or rejected by any other colleges.

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Good luck everyone!!! These results threads were helpful to me as an applicant, so I’d like to contribute.

Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1360 new (750/610)
ACT (breakdown): 30 (35/24/36/24)
SAT II: U.S. History 770, Literature 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.9 (OCPS calculation)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 17/733, top 2%
AP (place score in parenthesis): HG (5), WH (5), Psych (5), Lang (5), Euro (5), CapSem (5), AH (4), USH (4), Bio (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP CapRes, AP Stats, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Macro, AP Enviro, Spanish III H, Chinese III H
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, NSLI-Y Finalist

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Feminists United (Founder, Pres.), Chinese Club (Pres.), English Honor Society (VP), Technology Student Association (Secretary), Debate Team
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Florida Hospital Emergency Department, Intern at Feeding Children Everywhere (local NPO), English tutor online to students in Indonesia
Summer Activities: 2015 - 2 week camp in China / 2016 - 7 week study abroad in China w/ NSLI-Y (fully funded by U.S. Dept. of State)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Personal Essay - 10 tbh, I poured my heart & soul into this, had both my recommenders read it / Supplements - Why Barnard: 8 (I’d visited before, contacted alumnae, and included SPECIFIC trivia and things I like about Barnard), Woman in History: 7, Majored in Unafraid: 6 (wrote this in 30 min.)
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): 9 for my Research mentor who has known me for four years
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): 7 for my Lang teacher and Debate Coach
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): ??? I’ve had three different counselors throughout high school and I have no idea what my current one wrote
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): N/A
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 6, phone interview in November with a recent graduate. Though I tried my best to convey my enthusiasm, she seemed rather disengaged. It even seemed like she got tired of listening to me at one point and tried to excuse herself before I finished asking questions. Still, I hope she heard how much I genuinely wanted to attend Barnard…

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Political Science
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public, suburban
Ethnicity: Filipino
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

Reflections: Frankly, I’m surprised, relieved, and grateful that I was admitted. I submitted my Barnard application at 11:58 PM on November 1st, no kidding, and my supplemental essays were rushed. Also, I had an F in my junior year due to illness - I’m glad this wasn’t a breaking factor.
Strengths: Personal Essay, SAT II
Weaknesses: skewed SAT/ACT, supplemental essays
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I put so much of myself into that Personal Essay that it might as well be a Horcrux. Otherwise, I think my stats were acceptable, my EC’s showed a passion for women’s rights and languages (<3), and I’d done a ton of research on Barnard.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: N/A, but now I need to withdraw my apps from UC Berkeley and Smith…

General Comments (if any): Stats aren’t everything! I’ve never been very good at the SAT and my math scores have always sucked ass, so it’s not like you have to be perfect. Be honest. Show Barnard why you’re special, why you love Barnard, and why you belong at Barnard.

Thanks to the admissions committee for looking beyond the numbers (and the F). I’m beyond excited to be attending such a wonderful school in the greatest city in the world.

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ahhh so happy for you, thank you so much for sharing! and congrats!

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I’d also like to post mine since I feel like for some schools people only do it if they’ve got the best stats:

Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 33 (35 E, 29 M, 34 S, 35 R)
SAT II: French Reading 800, Literature 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.57
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Not ranked
AP (place score in parenthesis): My school doesn’t offer APs, we do ATs (Advanced Topics), which are essentially the same class without taking the test and are designed by the teacher
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AT Government, AT Archival Research, AT French, Calculus, NYC in Lit (English), NYC History (History), Jazz Band & Wind Symphony
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Jazz Band, Literary magazine (senior writing editor), Inquiry, GSA

Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered for Special Olympics
Summer Activities: 2014 - 4 week language immersion camp (MMLA) / 2015 - 5 week trip to Europe/ 2017 - 2 week trip to Cuba
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Personal Essay - probably about an 8.5/10. It was a good topic - I talked about how learning French had opened up doors for me etc. and was clearly very passionate, but it felt a little cliché at points. / Supplements - Why Barnard: 8.5 (I had visited before for an extended session and made very specific references to the Foundations curriculum and other programs specific to Barnard), Woman in History: 9 (I chose a literary character that was very Barnard but probably not something they’d seen often, and I linked it back to issues around sexuality and gender) Majored in Unafraid: 8.5 (It was a good story, but again, felt a little cheesy)

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): 10, I’ve had my French teacher for all four years of high school and she has told me I’m the best student she’s ever had
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): 9-10 for my history teacher who really likes me and writes great recs but might have said something more “balancing out”

Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): 9-10, my college counselor has been doing it for 14 years and is known for writing really good recs that help to explain away bad grades like my C+ in physics
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): N/A
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 8.5, my interviewer was super nice and we had a good talk but I’m worried I was visibly nervous and tripped over a few words

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Political Science/History/French
State (if domestic applicant): NY, but it has no impact on admission
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Private, Independent, Urban
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Upper Class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

Reflections: I was worried about my application because I thought it was too “spiky”, i.e. I am very noticeably bad at math and science and tend to take classes focused only on humanities. I was also concerned about not having enough outside of school experience and coming across as a rich white girl from NYC, which, to be fair, I mostly am; however, I didn’t want to seem entitled. I am so grateful and thrilled to have been accepted.
Strengths: ACT, SAT II, supplements, recs
Weaknesses: GPA, extracurriculars & lack of leadership positions
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think my test scores helped to balance out what I lacked in my
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was accepted at Bard College EA, but had to withdraw. I also applied to and withdrew my application to UVA, which I wouldn’t hear back from until late January anyway.
General Comments (if any): I read a lot about Barnard’s admissions being very holistic and really not based on a formula revolving around GPA and class rank. This worked out well for me, but I’ve heard of very qualified students not getting in for this reason as well. In any case, I hope this encourages all to apply even if you’re concerned about your transcript like me. They clearly care about more than that!

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@HongdouMianbao sorry just saw your reply- I was referring to those like myself who were rejected (or deferred).

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Decision: Deferred

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 31 (36E, 33R, 28M, 27S)
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.74: I’m consistently an A student with the regular B in my math classes. The reason my GPA is lower is because of my Sophomore year when depression hit me like a truck and therefore lost all motivation, earning more Bs than As and even Cs in both semesters of Honors Alg 2. But I rebounded with Bs only in Precalculus my junior year and in AP stat this year.
Weighted GPA: 4.2
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A, probably top 10-15% out of 500
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro (3) AP Lang (3) US Gov (4) Comprative Gov (4) (I get really bad test anxiety hence why I got 3s on my best subjects which I was predicted to get 5s and had solid As in both Euro and Lang)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: I’m adding 1st sem grades just for more references!! British Lit (98%) AP Biology (90.4%) AP Art History (90.1%) AP Stat (85%) AP Psychology (92%) AP French (93%)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Board of Education award for 4x800m state champion 2014 and 2015, Board of Education award for 2014 superior state rating for treble Choir sextet, Outstanding StuCo member for most participation both Semesters of Junior Year. Multiple Superior ratings from State Piano competitions. I’ve had 3+ art works in the district art show as well.

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: French Club (president), Student Council (Secretary of School), National Honors Society, Former All-State XC and Track runner, currently in my school’s Theatre company, I continue Piano-playing after taking lessons and competing for 8 years. Also taught myself Ukelele recently but which white girl hasn’t?
Job/Work Experience: Hostess at local Pub, mostly to help with my social anxiety.
Volunteer/Community service: most done through NHS and StuCo, such as chairing the Campus Beautification committee (and focusing on making our school more green).
Summer Activities: Spent a week at Loyola Chicago taking a class on Music & Politics, attended Missouri Association of Student Councils for a Leadership Conference
Essays: 9-10: I wrote my Common App essay about my aspirations of becoming a women’s rights activist by detailing multiple childhood experiences of being degraded as a young girl in society. I wrote it in the summer and used the next few months to revise it. Probably the best thing I’ve ever written honestly. My supplementary essays were okay (but VERY rushed considering I procrastinated on those) looking back, I’ve caught a few typos/ grammatical errors that I absolutely haTE MYSELF FOR and definitely would’ve caught had I spent more time on them. Majoring in Unafraid: I talked about my transition from quitting the emotional rollercoaster of my running career and expressing myself in theatre instead, allowing for myself to change and develop into a better version of me, embracing my bisexuality and all. The woman I talked about was Audrey Hepburn, whom I spent a whole semester researching my Sophomore year in my Advanced Language Arts and Research presentation class.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): 10: My StuCo Advisor that rules the school with me. Him and I have grown close over the years, and he’s definitely watched me grow throughout High School.
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): 8-9: My AP Lang teacher. I didn’t get to read this letter but I’m sure he spoke a lot of my outgoing charisma in class and my interactions with classmates in a clas that I flourished in.
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): 8-9: Again didn’t get to read this, but I trust that he understood my fault in my GPA sophomore year and explained that as well as my determination in school and towards my future based on the excessive amount of visits I’ve paid him :slight_smile:
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): N/A, likely adding one to make my application stronger for review in the spring.
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): (9) Really good experience with a really nice Alumna also originally from St. Louis that I instantly clicked with. I feel like it definitely helped with my application!

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Human Rights with a minor in either French/ Psychology/ Art History
State (if domestic applicant): MO
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White - Immigrant Parents from Romania (I’m Bilingual)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Lower Middle Class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Generation

Reflections: my Supplementary essays were definitely rushed: I shouldn’t have pushed them off until the night they were due :slight_smile:
Strengths: Interview, Common App essay, various talents, personality
Weaknesses: GPA, lack of volunteer experience outside of my school, lack of motivation when it comes to Math and Science (I definitely lean towards the social/ humanistic studies). I’m also very inconsistent in general. I have a variety of interests and swayed from different clubs and activities rather than showing the typical stability in what I’m good at. I’m “good” at a lot of things, but have never really “excelled” in something in particular.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m not really surprised I was deferred: I’d be extremely offended if Barnard would’ve denied me, and would’ve definitely been taken aback had I been accepted. There were a lot of inconsistencies with my GPA considering my sophomore year; my guess is they’re waiting to see my finalized 1st sem of senior year grades to make sure I’m stable now.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’ve been accepted to Loyola Chicago, have applied to U Wash Seattle, and am planning on also applying to Occidental, SLU, Scripps, Boston U, and NYU.

General Comments (if any): Question: does anybody have any feedback as to what I should expect in the spring based on my information? Should I prepare myself for rejection from my dream school? I visited just yesterday for Christmas and fell in love with the campus and the environment (even though it was empty). Even my harsh foreign dad has his hopes up so I’d hate to let him down yet again… so if there’s any tips as to what I can do as a deferred applicant to strengthen my application, please let me know!!

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Can anyone who has been deferred share their list of regular decision schools? I am hearing/reading so much about how many schools is the right number to apply to, that I’d love a real-world sense of what people who believe they have realistic chances at a school like Barnard do, and what schools also align with their interests. This would be very helpful - thanks!

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[B][size=4][color=#FF0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size][/b]

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1370 (730 M, 640 CR)
ACT (breakdown): Did not submit
SAT II: Did not submit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.60
Weighted GPA: 4.60
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Psych, APES, Calc AB, Physics, Lang, Lit, Bio, Gov
IB (place score in parenthesis): School does not offer
Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Gov, AP Lit, Aerospace Engineering, Honors US History, Ethics (required course), Public Speaking (required course), Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Presidential Community Service Award Gold (4 times), Girl Scout Gold Award

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity Indoor / Outdoor Track (jumping captain)
Science Olympiad
AHEC HEROES (a club for minorities wanting to go into medicine)
Girl Scouts
Church leader
DECA
NHS
Science Honor Society

Job/Work Experience:
Gymnastics coach
Governor’s, House, and Senate Page

Volunteer/Community service:
I volunteer through mostly NHS, my church, and Girl Scouts.

Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App- 8/10 About me being terrible at foreign languages / basically thinking they’re useless to having to coach a girl in gymnastics who only speaks French. I talked about teaching myself French and my changed viewpoints.
Why Barnard- 6/10 I wrote about PCP last summer
Woman in History- 8/10 I wrote about Blythe Baird and my love for slam poetry
Major in Unafraid- 10/10 I thought this was my best one. It was about me always being afraid of beam due to its height (even though I’m 5’10) and finally attempting a handstand for the first time

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): Engineering teacher 10/10 - I didn’t read it, but he was very proud of it
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): Calc teacher 7/10 - Again, didn’t read, but I assume it was good?
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): I have no idea, we just got a new counselor this year.
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): AHEC Advisor 10/10- Didn’t read
Additional Rec #2: My prof at PCP 10/10
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): It went okay, but I’m a very shy person so it was a bit awkward.

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: 3/2 Engineering (have to be accepted into Columbia engineering)
State (if domestic applicant): NC
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Charter
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Lol
Income Bracket: 60k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM (disabled)

Reflections:
Strengths: Recs, ECs?
Weaknesses: UW GPA, CR SAT score, low grades junior year due to illness
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think my major and amount of financial aid played a huge part in the decision process. For the engineering major, I believe you also must be accepted into Columbia SEAS. Also, my low grades last year didn’t help.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Still waiting to hear back from most schools, but I have been accepted into Clemson (w/ merit aid) and a local state school
General Comments (if any): Take junior year seriously (it matters). I also wish I would have taken the SAT again and brought my CR score up.

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Besides Barnard, I’ve applied to Boston U, UWash in Seattle, Scripps College, Occidental college, Smith College, NYU, and I’ve already been accepted to Loyola Chicago and SLU, my back-ups

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I was accepted to Barnard 2021 ED as an international applicant. Does anyone know if I am supposed to receive a packet in the mail or just the online notification that I was accepted?

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Accepted!

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Old- 1990, New- 1340, I don’t remember the breakdown
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.56
Rank: 2/354
AP: Calculus AB (5), English Language (4), US History (3)
Senior Year Course Load: 0 period Jazz band, physics, AP Calc BC, AP Art History, AP Government/Econ, Student Government, AP Lit

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Feminist club (founder and president), Rotary-Interact (President), Musical theatre for 3 years, Student Government for two years, student representative on district school board, student rep on school sit council,
Job/Work Experience: TA at summer math camp for elementary students, babysitter, math tutor
Volunteer/Community service: Lots through Rotary-Interact: food bank, homeless shelter, foster kids program
Summer Activities: see job/work experience
Essays:
Why Barnard- 9/10, I mean it was hard to not sound very generic; I talked about falling in love with NYC, coming from a town where I didn’t fit in, and that I felt at Barnard I could find my place. I threw in a quote from Debora Spar about who the Barnard woman is and said she’s describing the woman I hope I am or can become.
Woman in History/Literature- 9/10, I spend forever trying to come up with one altho I could write passionately about and I wrote about Catherine Minolta from Taming of the Shrew and how as a little girl I related to being told to stay quiet and about the the fear of not being liked for being a powerful woman. I am v proud of this one.
Majored in unafraid- 9/10, managing an incurable disease every day of my life, the day of diagnosis and when I had to give myself my first shot

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: 10/10 AP Calc and ASB teacher, also I TA for her; I know her super well (I even babysit her kids) and based on what she told me, it was a stellar recommendation
Teacher Rec #2 9/10 AP Lang and 9th grade English teacher; I don’t know her as well but she has seen my grow as a student and she is one of the nicest human beings alive so Im sure it was wonderful
Counselor Rec:7/10 Just a wild guess. She’s not very bright and also not a great counselor
Additional Rec: 9/10 A school board member wanted to write me one who is also a college admissions counselor at another school. I’ve known her a long time bc her daughter was friends with my sister
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details):

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: idk
State (if domestic applicant): CA
School Type: medium sized public
Ethnicity: Asian and white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: >100,000

Reflections: I think my essays showed a lot of passion for learning which helped my not-so-great test scores. Imma be honest, I didn’t study for them at all, mostly out of stubbornness bc of my hatred for standardized tests
Strengths: Common app essay (I spent so much time revising it, and had like 7 teachers give me feedback), extracurriculars, and my rigorous classes throughout high school (9 APs, 2 honors)
Weaknesses: Test Scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: see reflections
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: LOL nowhere, cause I did early decision so I waited to apply to tother privates. I applied to UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara, but I had to withdraw my applications

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@dolcemiele hi I am also an international student and I have applied RD. I was wondering if I could get your stats/credentials if that’s okay? I haven’t come across any other internationals as of yet so it would be really helpful to see the type of international student they have accepted! Thank you!

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[B][size=4][color=#FF0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size][/b]

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): superscored 690R 750W 750M (old SAT)
ACT (breakdown): none
SAT II: 750 Math II, 720 Spanish
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.41 overall, but strong upward trend from ~2.8 freshman year to ~3.8 junior year. I did have another dip down first quarter of senior year because of my grandfather’s illness/death
Weighted GPA: 4.04
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): really bad! Lit (4) Spanish language (4) Euro (3) AB Calc (3) US gov (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis): Social anthro (6) Math SL (6)
Senior Year Course Load: IB environmental science, IB Spanish HL, IB chem HL, AP stat, IB English HL, IB economics, TOK
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit semifinalist, AP scholar with honors, National Spanish honor society

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): long term work with the ONE Campaign, an advocacy organization for global poverty aid (youngest Congressional District Leader and youngest intern), School chapter of ONE Campaign (co-founder/president), intern with local housing partnership (2015 Youth Volunteer of the Year for developing affordable housing proposal), School literary magazine (business/layout editor), Queer Rights Club (president), UNIS-UN conference on media activism, classical Indian dance, third degree Karate black belt, piano and violin (not serious)
Job/Work Experience: none yet
Volunteer/Community service: housing partnership and ONE Campaign work was all volunteer work
Summer Activities: CTY Princeton, summer internship with an urban issues NGO in India (wrote sections in critical reports to Indian government and did field work in urban slum relocations)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common app- probably an 8, it was about Google Maps representing my passion for exploring new places (and subsequently for academic exploration) kind of corny now that I look back at it
Majored in unafraid- 7.5, wrote about fear of ordering mexican food on the phone (basically fear of public speaking/speaking to strangers) and how I pushed myself out of my comfort zone
Woman in history- 5, I honestly think this one is so dull!! I wrote about a lighthearted argument with Mary Seton from A Room of One’s Own. I changed it last minute and I’m not sure that was a good decision
Why Barnard- 9, I think I really conveyed my main reasons here and I didn’t try to pander to admissions too much. I wrote a 2000 word letter to my parents in the summer to convince them to let me ED and I basically summarized that thing. The rating might just be biased because I was so entranced while writing it :slight_smile:
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): 8? I had this teacher for 3 classes last year but he’s a little absent-minded and I’m nervous that he didn’t write enough about my role as a student in the classroom/focused too much on my ECs etc
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): 6 my teacher forgot about the rec until 6pm november 1st, but I was a really active student/performed well in her class
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): 9, I know he thinks highly of me because he knows the reason behind my initial poor grades and knows how I’ve worked to improve myself
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 10 from my supervisor at the ONE Campaign. I read this one and it’s amazing I almost cried, it’s mostly about me as an activist and leader
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 7, it was via skype and very comfortable but my interviewer was super talkative and I’m not sure how much she actually remembered about me

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah
Intended Major: Sociology/environmental studies
State (if domestic applicant): MD
Country (if international applicant): //
School Type: High ranked public IB. May have been a disadvantage because of the number of heinously overqualified students here
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Gender: Female ofc
Income Bracket: >100
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflections: I honestly think I did not put as much thought and care and rewriting into the essays as I should (and could) have. I still think Barnard is the perfect perfect school for me that checks off every single one of my criteria and I love it so passionately :frowning: I was really nervous for a while after submitting my app and I was super obsessed with consuming all Barnard-related media on the internet so over the past month I came to terms fully with my imminent rejection and I’m REALLY glad I did that. If I were still in the mindset I was in in the fall I would be devastated, but telling myself over the past month that life will go on and it’s a reach school anyway helped me not care as much about being rejected :wink:
Strengths: ECs I think? I’m generally a really passionate and social justice-oriented person and I think I have a “Barnard” personality? Upward trend is better than downward trend, and my test scores aren’t bad.
Weaknesses: A LOT. grades in general are subpar, essays probably not at their best, AP scores a disaster. I’m also an overrepresented minority! and I might be competitive were I not from such a high-achieving high school
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Grades mostly
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted- drexel, goucher, UMD college park, reed, american u, NYU gallatin. waitlisted- bryn mawr, wellesley, GWU. rejected- BU, tufts, northeastern (deferred)

General Comments (if any): Please don’t get your heart too set on one school. If it’s too late and you’re already crazy in love, reverse that attitude ASAP because you will thank yourself if you don’t get what you hoped for. Any Barnard applicant is a strong, passionate, driven leader and you can all get what you want anywhere you go- you’re 17ish and life has barely begun!! :slight_smile: