<p>In my heart, I know I want to attend Barnard. I am a city girl and I enjoy the Barnard campus vibe a lot more than some isolated area. However, the first question on the Barnard supplement was "how did you first learn about barnard?" and I said that I learned about women's colleges from talking to my apush teacher who went to Smith College. Was that a fatal move? </p>
<p>No. </p>
<p>No, assuming your second sentence talked about discovering Barnard through researching women’s colleges. If you had said “I first heard about Smith…”, that would not be good.</p>
<p>Thanks guys!!!</p>
<p>No. </p>
<p>I don’t think its a big deal</p>
<p>No, particularly if you go on to explain that you like the idea of a women’s college and how Barnard is the perfect fit for you.</p>
<p>Why did you have mention the college anyway??
The adcoms are not interested in which college your teacher went to :P</p>
<p>and secondly why waste 4 words in the strict word limit :(</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure even the slight connection to the seven sisters will help more than anything.</p>
<p>@ashleymartin Maybe OP had a short answer and wanted to fill in the 250 limit. It looks better if you can cover a lot of information with just a little space.</p>
<p>As I recall, the supplement question is worded something like, “How did you first hear about Barnard.” </p>
<p>My daughter wrote something about how she found Barnard when she was searching for schools with a good linguistics program.</p>
<p>Barnard does not have a linguistics department or major… ; #-o </p>
<p>And yet they still admitted her. </p>
<p>I’m guessing that the answer that really doesn’t help is: “I really want to attend Columbia, so I’m using Barnard as my safety just in case Columbia turns me down” 
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<p>My D and i went to a uChicago talk…the particularly cynical AC was taking about essays they receive and she said, “by the way, UChicago isn’t spelled p r i n c e t o n”…so I guess this is a lot more common than you’d expect. </p>
<p>I said I first heard about Barnard by looking across the street from Columbia and asking my cousin what it was - which is the truth. I never even ended up applying to Columbia after I found out more about Barnard</p>
<p>In my opinion, not only is it not a problem, I think that’s a perfectly wonderful answer!</p>
<p>This is not at all like applying to UChicago and sending in a supplement about why one loves Princeton. Women’s colleges are special, and the fact that you learned about them from a teacher who attended one explains why you’re now applying to Barnard.</p>
<p>The only problem would be if you had put Smith College instead of Barnard. For example, the question is “Why Barnard” and you put, “The reason I want to attend Smith College is that…”! Korean kids copy and paste and make that type of egregious error all the time. LOL</p>