Going to Bard

<p>Everybody’s made their decisions by now. So, who’s going to Bard with me?!</p>

<p>Ew, who would go there?! I'm going to SOPHIE KERR, SCHOOL OF LITERARY HOUSE.</p>

<p>Congratulations justaseagull! Bard is a very different and highly regarded college. A good friend of mine's nephew attended and excelled there. Best wishes for your upcoming year at Bard! :)</p>

<p>I'm so jealous! I want to write romance novels!</p>

<p>PS - Don't make me hurt you, dearest.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

<p>Good for you, justaseagull! I look forward to meeting you here next year. =)</p>

<p>I'm an international student. I got only 16k of FA. But still decide to go. Hopefully I can get more in the subsequent years</p>

<p>ZJH, I see that you're from "China and Singapore". Did you attend JC in Singapore?</p>

<p>yes i did. i had my upper secondary and JC in Singapore. wmgan you are an international student also?</p>

<p>I am. What's everyone planning on/thinking about majoring in?</p>

<p>I'm from Malaysia, and I went to RJC where I did the A levels before coming to Bard.</p>

<p>not really sure about major...
i am reading econs textbook to explore what econs is like.</p>

<p>If you're considering majoring in econ, I recommend taking either intro to micro or macro your first semester. You need to take both to moderate, and it will really give you a feel for the field and department.</p>

<p>Thanks Chimaera! Is it possible for me to take double major in Bard? I might want to do Math and Econs</p>

<p>Very possible--one of my friends is double majoring in the two. It's not for the lighthearted, though, since you might end up having to do two senior projects. But if you're genuinely interested in both fields and don't mind some tough work, I'd say go for it.</p>

<p>Actually you don't necessarily have to do two senior projects. I've been toying with the idea of double majoring in math and computer science (actually I'm in the conservatory so that would technically make it a triple major, which I know sounds crazy but what can I say -- I'm an ambitious person), so I've talked to one of the math professors about it.</p>

<p>As it turns out, you can moderate into both majors, and then pick one "official" major to do a senior project in. Your transcript will reflect that you've completed the coursework for both majors, even if you didn't do senior projects in both. You could also attempt to do a senior project that combines both fields, if you find a connection that you really want to explore.</p>

<p>Of course, as she pointed out, if I major in math and take a handful of computer science classes here, or vice versa, grad schools would be happy to accept me for either field. I'm sure that works for econ and math too, or at least in the math --> econ direction; I'm not sure how applicable econ is to math.</p>

<p>Do note that the math program at Bard is currently very much focused on pure math -- if you're more interested in applied math, you won't find much of it here. They've tried getting some applied mathematicians to teach at Bard but unfortunately the applied math candidates were invariably weaker than the pure math ones, which is why they haven't hired any.</p>

<p>Do feel free to ask me any questions about math classes at Bard.</p>

<p>is the math curriculum very demanding? and econs curriculum also?</p>

<p>Well, it's hard to compare Bard's math curriculum to others when I've never taken any undergraduate math classes at another college, but the impression I have is that it can be as demanding as you want it to be. Teachers often give optional extra credit problems that are much more challenging than the regular ones.</p>

<p>hey wmgan, you used to stay at bayley block at RIB rite?:)</p>

<p>btw, do you know how good the econs program at bard is?</p>