Hello! Having a bit of a predicament about where to apply ED. I love Tufts and Barnard a lot and cannot decide which would be a better place to shoot my best shot. I’m not going to give y’all my stats but I think I have a fair shot at either school. I’m much stronger in the humanities than in STEM and am hoping to pursue languages, English, or social sciences. I’m very academic but still deeply value a sense of community and a poppin’ social life – my biggest concern with Barnard is that I won’t get that fun. But on the flip side, I’m not an athlete or a sorority type so I’m wondering how I’d fit in at Tufts. Overall both are amazing institutions and I’d be ecstatic to go to either so maybe I should just flip a coin! Any information about either place would be greatly appreciated 
Why wouldn’t you get a social life at Barnard? Have you visited? It’s a very lively area.
Barnard is also part of Columbia U, which is literally across the street, so you’ll have all of the resources there at your disposal as well.
Agree that Barnard would have lots of fun. Not only at school and the shared campuses, but the entire city of NY. Hard to beat. Barnard itself is in a relatively quiet neighborhood of the City which means there are significant parks and green space nearby. Also it’s on the red #1 line, which heads downtown to anything you’d need to get to–Broadway Shows, music venues, Lincoln Center. Also the bus line that runs past Barnard can take you across town to the Metropolitan Museum of Art easily. There’s a lot more to do beyond that.
My daughter is a social butterfly at Barnard. She belongs to a club at Columbia, goes to frat/non-frat parties at Columbia, loves the strong female community at Barnard. She also met and befriended numerous students from NYU, Pace, and Cooper Union in lower Manhattan.
Tufts has never had a big greek life component and tbh sports aren’t that big a thing either. Based on your interests, I think you would fit right in there as you predict. It is the type of school where pretty much everyone seems to find their “people” and yet it isn’t huge so there is a strong community feeling (or at least these things were true when I went there in the 1980s).
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