<p>I'm kinda unsure about the whole deal surrounding Bard College at Simon's Rock. I know its an early college, but I'm not totally sure if its a reputable school.</p>
<p>So, on their website, it says that kids from Simon's Rock transfer easily to top schools like Harvard, Yale, Penn, Berkeley and Stanford. </p>
<p>Is it common for Simon's Rock students to transfer to other schools easily, or are these examples just anomalies? </p>
<p>Thanks a lot guys, I really need this cleared up, and a lot of other prospective students are confused about this too.</p>
<p>Simon’s Rock is the real deal. If you’re up to the challenge, it’s a place that’s hard to beat.</p>
<p>Transfer after your second year offers countless opportunities among the best schools in the country. Admissions officers have great relationships with the SR folks and know they get top students when they accept SR transfers. Just check with the admissions folks there and they’ll give you a list of actual transfer schools. </p>
<p>Or if you decide to stay for all 4 years and take your bachelor’s degree at Bard/SR, you’ll find great grad school choices open to you.</p>
<p>Simon’s Rock students rate their Academics at 98 on a 60-99 scale, and say…</p>
<p>Bard College at Simon’s Rock is a tiny, “rigorous,” and “unique” bastion of the liberal arts and sciences that allows high-school-aged students “the opportunity to start their college careers and broaden their academic horizons a bit earlier than is orthodox.” At Simon’s Rock, you can enroll after completing tenth or eleventh grade. “I wasn’t learning anything in high school,” explains an art history major. “Simon’s Rock recognizes that and provides you with another option.” There’s a Lower College and an Upper College. (Students in the Lower College are the ones who would otherwise be in high school.) Both colleges offer an incredible amount of freedom to design your own course of study. There are more than 40 majors. The arts programs are “very strong.” Students in the engineering program can spend three years at Simon’s Rock and then two years at Columbia University. Several outstanding study-abroad opportunities send students to places such as Istanbul, Ghana, Oxford, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Many people “only stay here two years,” long enough to earn an associate’s degree. After that, they transfer to a more traditional college. However, you can also stick around at SRC to get your bachelor’s degree. Either way, “the academic expectations are formidable.” Coursework is “challenging” and “requires a lot of time input out of class.” There’s quite a bit of reading. Seniors must complete a self-designed thesis. Classes are small-the average size is a mere 10 students-and they are filled with “engaging” discussion. “Simon’s Rock professors are generally very supportive and understanding.” They provide “up-close and personal attention” and “go out of their way to be available out of the classroom.”</p>
<p>I go to Simon’s Rock, and there are a lot of kids who transfer to top tier schools, but DO NOT say that they made it there easily. I know of one kid who was accepted to MIT and another who was wait-listed, and I think they are easily the two most brilliant on this campus. We do have a program with columbia, 3 years here 2 there for engineering only.</p>
<p>Look, transfer admissions are always harder than freshman admissions. Colleges look at what transfers have done; they look at freshman for their potential. If you think you can pull off a 4.0 here (I only know two, one is a Physics major-he got into MIT, and the other is Poli Sci or something not as difficult–in my eyes), and you think it is worth it, then by all means don’t waste your time in high school. However, Simon’s Rock has just as rigorous of academics as many of these schools people are transferring to–the only difference is that there are less professors, less money, and less students, so we don’t get as good of a rep. as we should. This means it IS still difficult to get into many schools.</p>
<p>If I had the chance I would’ve waited my two years in high school and kept my stellar record, but that’s swiped now. I can’t have any regrets because I’m much smarter than I would’ve been after junior year of high school had I stayed, but it still would’ve been nice if someone had told me, you can go somewhere better if you graduate. Whatever you do, just make sure you have no regrets.</p>