<p>i am too afraid to apply… i think that i will never be able to adjust or feel happy at an all woman college.</p>
<p>how did the current people at Barnard adjust to the life? is it fun there? Enough guys?</p>
<p>Barnard is the "most co-ed" womens college because of Columbia right across the street. And I think there are a few guys in NYC.</p>
<p>My D took Smith over Barnard and Wellesley and is having a great college experience. Three-word summary is: "tired but happy."</p>
<p>My d is there now and there are plenty of folks of both genders to hang with...absolutely no problem!!! And my little girl, the dancer who only ever talked before of maybe double majoring in english or perhaps psych is now thinking maybe Pre med. So, yeah, there is something to be said for being a "strong, beautiful Barnard woman". She, in so may words, LOVES it there!!!!!</p>
<p>to be honest, as a freshman at barnard, it's not as easy as many might claim to meet people of the opposite sex. you have to be a very outgoing person, join many clubs, and be involved. in terms of fun, there might be a few parties at barnard, but in my experience i've gone over to columbia or around the neighborhood, sometimes downtown. barnard/columbia is not a very large party school. but the city is probably the greatest campus that one could have. much larger sense of community at barnard too, than one might have at a place like nyu.</p>
<p>As a first semester freshman, when you're taking your Barnard seminar and Barnard writing class, yeah, you have to join clubs or know people who know people. It's aaaall about the networking.</p>
<p>But after your first semester, and DEFINITELY after your first year, it gets much easier as your courses become more integrated. I'm practically a hermit (note my perpetual presence on this and other internet forums...) but I had plenty of guy friends and (too) many guy "that wants to be more than" friends. Of course, I majored in econ-math, so... biased perspective.</p>
<p>But no, definitely not a party school. More of a hang out, go out, and once you're old enough chill out in bars type of place.</p>
<p>D has been to two Broadway musicals and is going to her third opera of the first semester. Cheap(er) tickets are available through Barnard and Columbia, various outlets and (best of all) out of town visiting relatives.
Math classes are coed as well as many language classes at least the less common languages. The free trips to operas and shows are coed. Religious clubs are coed.</p>
<p>Also, my d has met most of her guy friends, I believe, as a first year through the various orientation activities offered during that first week. She made a wonderful group of friends that week that has pretty much stayed together, I think.</p>
<p>I'm a freshwoman at Barnard right now... and I really don't feel like it's a traditional women's college.
I see men everyday.. in most of my classes (except first year english/seminar) and I see them walking around everywhere on both Barnard and COlumbia campuses.
We're involved in the same organizations and we have the same social lives.
Some of my best friends here are guys.
THe only thing is that there aren't guys when you walk out of your dorm (ie. on your floor).. but in a way it's actually really nice.
Some of my Columbia girlfriends are jealous of how close and intimate me and my Barnard girlfriends are.
I know I really lucked out but my floor and I are so tight. We've formed our own little group and we're so close.. this is something you won't be able to really get at Columbia.
We have the girlfriends AND the guys too.
I think it's a pretty sweet deal.
I wouldn't worry too much about the whole guy situation.
And in the 2nd year you could probably get coed housing anyway.</p>
<p>part of the fun of going to a women's college is that you learn you don't need to have guys around to have fun. we like to say "no *****, no problems." most of barnard's all-femaleness is in philosophy. here you will learn to be proud to be a woman, your classes will never neglect women's issues, and you will never not be called on just because you're not a boy.</p>