<p>@sharbare: i haven’t gotten the full tuition yet from tulane…applying for it! yayyy we sound similar, we’ll probably see each other at rush (if we both get in!). so sad its in the winter, and not fall. </p>
<p>umm so are any of you concerned about the guy situation at barnard or what?</p>
<p>@treehugga
heteronormative, much? jk i dont care.</p>
<p>lol boys. referencing that tweet from mylifeisbarnard, i totally agree with her. “only at columbia would a fat, bearded guy reject you” or something along those lines. from experience, i think columbia guys can be either really really pretentious or really really sweet. uh male population = half dorky, half stuck up, and overall unattractive. </p>
<p>haha but thats a generalization. im sure there are some goodlooking ones out there. but idk. appearances dont matter much to me when it comes to relationships. as long as the guy is toned and knows how to dress, 
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<p>I’m not worried about the guy situation. I just found out 8 of my friends got into Columbia ED, so I know who and where I will be meeting/chilling with and how to access the bros. ;)</p>
<p>haha…you’re a good resource! </p>
<p>and ok this is embarassing but i don’t know what heteronormative is. but guy-obsessed? maybe :P.</p>
<p>Four of my friends were just accepted to UPenn. I don’t know if I should feel better about my own chances because they got in or worse because most of them have perfect grades, etc. But I’m so happy for them - I can’t even imagine how it must feel to log into that admissions screen and see “Congratulations!” I can only hope I get to feel that kind of euphoria next week.</p>
<p>And I have become a monster. I now understand how Raskolnikov felt (although there is a very slight difference between hiding a murder and college admissions). I constantly think about Barnard and when I try to hold a normal conversation with my friends or pay attention in class I always start worrying and talking about it. I’m probably driving my friends off the wall because none of them have a clear first choice. Hell, most of them didn’t even apply anywhere ED, and those of them who did have clear second choices and their first choices are only first by a small margin. Barnard is far and away the only college that I truly want to attend. I try to warm myself to other schools but it never works.</p>
<p>But I did message one of my friends who is a current Barnard student and she had some incredibly kind words. She put my state of mind perfectly in that I’m “see-sawing between I’m-getting-in-I’m-not-getting-in-I’m-getting-in.” It’s hard not to think about Barnard 24/7, but I can at least try to focus on other things. I’m especially excited for my field trip to the Constitution Center and Reading Terminal Market on Monday. I’m going to read all the documents and eat all the things and I fully expect to be that person who holds her friends behind because I have to read every single word of every single exhibit.</p>
<p>the only lover i have ever had is a meat lovers pizza</p>
<p>REEEEEE SOURCEEEEEEEEEEE S</p>
<p>[How</a> will I be notified? | Barnard College](<a href=“http://barnard.edu/headlines/how-will-i-be-notified]How”>http://barnard.edu/headlines/how-will-i-be-notified)</p>
<p>this went up 48 minutes ago. 
(yes, obsessed).</p>
<p>GAAHHHH. DOES THAT MEAN WE MIGHT GET IT SOONER THAN THE 15th??</p>
<p>on the clothing subject: Anthropology and J Crew ALLLLLL THE WAAAAAY :)</p>
<p>…Guess is SOOOO trashy scarletstream…</p>
<p>Free people, Anthropologie, and Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, dELiA’s… You get the idea ;)</p>
<p>@Sunlit Midnight: Free People, Anthropologi, Urban, and Forever 21 are my favorites!!!</p>
<p>And, yes, also slightly worried about the boy situation…but, at the same time, it is New York City, so there are plenty of fish in the sea :)</p>
<p>Okay, wait, so does that little paragraph on their site mean they will be sending out the decisions on 12/12?</p>
<p>shoooot…does this mean north jersey people could hypothetically get their decisions before thursday???</p>
<p>Well, if it’s priority mail, then there’s a good chance we East Coasters could get it early. I kind of hope we don’t, though - my school’s winter concert is on Wednesday and if I get rejected before then it’ll be kind of difficult to play the saxophone while my lip is all quivery from sadness.</p>
<p>Also, can we just start posting amusing things to get our minds off of this whole process? Yes? Good. These two blogs are good places to start:
[Rick</a> Perry’s Unpopular Opinions](<a href=“http://unpopularopinionrickperry.■■■■■■■■■■/]Rick”>http://unpopularopinionrickperry.■■■■■■■■■■/)
[The</a> Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day](<a href=“http://samepicofdavecoulier.■■■■■■■■■■/]The”>http://samepicofdavecoulier.■■■■■■■■■■/)</p>
<p>My Less-Than-One-Week-Away! De-Stressing Playlist:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“Vanessa Paradis & -M- "La seine" (Extrait du film "Un monstre à Paris") - YouTube”>Vanessa Paradis & -M- "La seine" (Extrait du film "Un monstre à Paris") - YouTube]Vanessa</a> Paradis & -M- “La seine” (Extrait du film "Un monstre </p>
<p>“Early decision notifications are intended to be received by the end of the week of 12/12.” The end of the week is 12/17. This statement also indicates an ‘intention’ which is far from a guarantee. Unsettling. </p>
<p>Very odd to read all this about clothing brands, sororities, and hetero dating prospects. Not the topics I’d expect to be uppermost in the minds of this applicant pool. Can’t all be trolls.</p>
<p>They said that “Early decision notifications are intended to be received by the end of the week of 12/12.” So do emails for international students get sent out the 12th or still by the 15th. A little confused! Thanks!.</p>
<p>^International students will get their decisions on the 12th or 13th via email, I believe.</p>
<p>And, Nacreous, what do you mean? Just because we are talking about clothes and dating, it doesn’t make us any less intelligent or trolls. It’s not like we all should fit into a certain stereotype because we are applying to a selective all-girls school…</p>
<p>It’s just odd that those appear to be the dominant interests among the majority of posters. It’s a strangely stereotypical picture of the interests of young women and doesn’t gibe with my sense of the school as a haven for intellectuals at all. Of course, any group comprises a variety of points of view but in this case the views don’t seem to differ much from one another and the shared perspective is not one I would recognize as particularly characteristic of Barnard.</p>
<p>ahhhh! I can’t wait any longer! honestly this is too much, its been THE longest month of my life! haha okay exaggeration right there. but it says at the end of the week of 12/12, so Im guessing 15th or 16th then, as the initial set date was the 15th…</p>
<p>NACREOUS, I was having a similar thought when my mom brought something strange to my attention. She is in an EdD program with an RA at Barnard and the RA mentioned that she overheard Barnard students asking questions like, “did you go to boarding school or day school?” As an average income student at a massive public school with a job in low-end retail and an aversion to materialistic attitudes I found this quite unsettling, particularly because I asked for a lot of grant-based financial aid.</p>
<p>But upon some reflection I realize I cannot stereotype every woman at Barnard because of a select few. Yes, there will be women who are more interested in clothing and boys than their classes. There will be the wealthy and materialistic students - it is an extremely expensive school, after all, and considering the fact that over 20% of their students are NY natives it’s only natural that they’d pull in several obscenely wealthy New Yorkers. But it is quite easy to avoid them. Barnard is a women’s college, after all, and while you will have a crowd whose greatest draw is being in NYC and turning into a woman from Sex and the City you will have plenty of others who are interested in being a women’s college environment at one of the greatest academic institutions in the world. </p>
<p>In short, you cannot walk onto Barnard campus and assume that every single woman there is a passionate intellectual, nor can you assume that every woman there is only interested in boys and clothes. Also don’t forget that an interest in boys and clothes and an intellectual attitude aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive: in this thread, for example, we’re simply trying to bond and reel in our excitement/nervousness in this thread, and engaging in heated intellectual debate when you’re getting to know someone, in my experience, is usually not the best idea. </p>
<p>If it’s the heteronormative attitudes that deter you…well, if these posters go to Barnard, give them a couple of weeks. Not everyone is raised in an environment where feminism and LGBT issues are taught. If they attend Barnard for several years and still fail to grasp the concept of heteronormativity then I invite you to give them grief.</p>
<p>@ NACREOUS- so are you saying that because we are discussing stereotypically “girly” topics we are not qualified to be the “uppermost minds”…huh, where are you applying again??</p>