How do i stack up to bard?

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<p>i’m only a junior, but i just want to know, if in your opinions i’m on the right track.</p>

<p>i haven’t taken the SAT’s yet.</p>

<p>my GPA is 3.6.</p>

<p>freshman year i took 2 advanced classes.
sophomore year i took 3 advanced classes and doubled up in math.
junior year i am taking 7 IB classes and 1 AP class. (i am going for the IB diploma)
senior year i will also be taking 7 IB classes and 1 AP class.</p>

<p>i am a girl scout(MANY volunteer hours already, around 25), part of JSA, lit society, and the gay straight alliance. </p>

<p>i did softball and winter track.</p>

<p>opinions?</p>

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<p>OP, there never seems to be a lot of traffic on Bard threads, so don’t worry that you haven’t received responses yet. And, as you probably already know, no poster on any CC thread will be able to offer you definitive advice on your chances to be admitted to any school. My D will apply to Bard this year, which is why I periodically scan the Bard threads. </p>

<p>Having said all that, now to your question. Bard says on its website that it looks for a rigorous course schedule - which you have - and solid academic marks - which you are achieving - and then says it will be interested, among other things, in your teachers’ views of you and your essays. Your ECs show that you are active and involved in helping make and maintain communities and are fine, too.</p>

<p>My D thinks Bard encourages creativity, across all of its activities, academic and otherwise. Beyond liking the fantastic structure of Bard’s academic program (small discussion-based classes, moderation and a senior thesis), she likes how Bard emphatically fosters the arts, is delighted in the aesthetics of Bard’s location and built environment, and only wishes the food services looked a little more enticing.</p>

<p>Good luck with school this year, and with your future college decisions.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much for your input! </p>

<p>Do you think it will help at all that my aunt is bard alum?</p>

<p>good luck to your daughter as well!</p>

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<p>Weetbixmum, Are the food services really that bad? I noticed on the tour with my daughter that they made a special point of NOT taking us to the cafeteria? We didn’t visit any residences either. Do you know what they are like?</p>

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<p>My D actually likes the food at Bard.</p>

<p>The residence halls are all very different. The toasters (where D spent freshman year) have nice rooms, fairly large, the Village had a decent room (D didn’t make many friends in the dorm soph year but already had made friends anyway). Both had private bathrooms. Tewksbury is reputed to be a “traditional” dorm style, and there are many other options…one of which I’ll be able to tell you about when D comes back from her semester abroad. The dorms are apparently good enough that she’s unconcerned about which random selection she gets for the spring semester.</p>

<p>P.S. She’s a pretty picky eater.</p>

<p>P.P.S. She had a nice interaction with a food service chef who prepared her some special food for passover. While she doesn’t especially like salmon - either mine or her grandmother’s - she did like his.</p>

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<p>Hi rachelsophia. I have no idea whether having an aunt who is a Bard alum might be of assistance to you. Sorry. I do take it though, that you wouldn’t be considering Bard if her experience there hadn’t been satisfactory - and I hope it was.</p>

<p>Hi danceclass and stradmom. I’m only offering a single family’s anecdotes, so wouldn’t care to get into a ‘food fight’ (I don’t know how to make those smiling emoticons, so please know I’m making an ‘Animal House’ kind of pun and saying this with humor). And I am glad to hear of your daughter’s food experiences, stradmom, if only because I’m not sure food services is a legitimate reason to consider a school or to discount a school from consideration. (And, no, danceclass, we haven’t seen the residences either, and that does start to impinge upon the legitimate reasons to consider a school or not, in our view. But we have liked the Bard website’s video tours of its housing. So, an additional thanks for your notations on that topic, too, stradmom.)</p>

<p>Our family has visited twice - once in the summer and once in the fall - and the food was, in our views, perfunctory, at best, on both occasions: desultory range, overtly per-serve-costed, uninspiring, mass cafeteria-style airline-type catering. Each member of our family is quite happy to eat almost anything, so being picky, in terms of what is available, isn’t the issue. What is the issue - and again, our daughter is looking for academic caliber, first and foremost - is food quality. Our family is lucky in that our daughter has revelled in cooking from a very young age. The Hudson Valley is a food basket, among other things. But it seemed to us that Bard’s clear interest in caliber in so many, many areas, didn’t seem to extend to its food service. And we thought that was an easily rectified pity, that’s all.</p>

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<p>Rachelsophia, you seem to be a solid prospie. Keep it up and hopefully you’ll get in. Bard’s awesome.</p>

<p>The food isn’t that bad. It DOES, however, get old after awhile. also, they’ve stepped up the food this year so it’s better than it was.</p>

<p>They don’t show the dorms on tour at bard because all of them are so incredibly different that it wouldn’t be a fair representation. The rooms a pretty large for college standards. A lot of dorms have individual bathrooms that lock, if you’re not into communal bathrooms. kitchens are big, common rooms are interesting, etc. etc. </p>

<p>The dorms are split up into:</p>

<p>North Campus - Hudson/Catskill (trailers. big rooms, thin walls, awesome view), Cruger Village (Cruger, Keen, Oberholzer, Barlett, Sawkill, and the Tree Houses–Sycamore, Maple, Spruce, and Mulberry), Manor/Manor Annex, and Old/New Robbins (Manor and Robbins are upperclassman only. The rest are mixed). Not too bad of a walk. Almost exactly half a mile from Robbins and Manor though to the rest of campus.</p>

<p>The Village - Village Dorms A-K are upperclassmen, environmentally friendly dorms, some suite style, some not. Nice area, nice dorms, no wifi.</p>

<p>Main Campus - South Hall and Stone Row (both upperclassmen dorms). Haven’t been in either.</p>

<p>South Campus - Williams (trailer), Alumni Houses/“The Toasters” (Wolff, Obreshkove, Shafer, Rovere, Rueger, Steinway, Bluecher, Leonard, Bourne, and Shelov), Sands, and Feitler. I haven’t been in Sands, but the rest are pretty nice. Feitler is the vegetarian/vegan cooking dorm. The food is apparently awesome. Everywhere but Feitler and Sands (and even so, Sands isn’t too far away) is close to main campus.</p>

<p>I probably forgot some places, but that’s basically the rundown. You can look at pictures of the dorms online, but each dorm (except for the tree houses and the alumni houses) are done in different architecture styles, colors, etc.</p>