<p>for everyone who was accepted to barnard can u tell me what ur sats/gpa/ec/community involvement were so i know what i should expect?</p>
<p>would find that info helpful too!</p>
<p>A lot of this data is publicly available. I'm not sure you want to learn about the stats of isolated individuals. If their stats are way above yours, it can be discouraging. If they are below yours, you'll wonder how they got in when that really talented senior from your high school didn't get in. If their profile is the same as yours, you will look at the common data set and realize you haven't learned anything more informative.
Now on the other hand, collecting information that is not reduceable to numbers is useful. Try asking "why Barnard?" For my daughter it was almost completely ambience. She visited on the coldest snowiest weekend of the year and loved it. I had her go back for the accepted students' weekend, during which she visited other schools, and she just clicked with the young women she met at Barnard. Granted she was already leaning toward women's colleges and the northeast. I have been told by many of my friends that their children have picked colleges by the same method. For reassurance on what seems like a very nonanalytic method of selection read "Blink", currently a best seller.</p>
<p>The ambience and "clicking with peers" thing is really important.
I agree that asking people on-line about stats isn't that useful. The best application is negative: the cautionary examples of people who have great stats and don't get in. The worst words I see on CC are "You're in."</p>
<p>Would also like to know how many of accepted Barnard students did the "optional" interview.</p>
<p>I think seeing some stats helps you to gauge if the school should be considered a "reach" or "match" for you, with the caveat that "match" schools are "realistic" but NOT safeties!</p>
<p>The common data set is available at:
<a href="http://www.barnard.edu/opir/cds/cds_main.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.barnard.edu/opir/cds/cds_main.htm</a>
On about pages three and four of the first year section it gives you a profile of the stats of the first year class for 04-05. What it does not give you, that the Wellesley Admissions page gives you, is the percentage of acceptance from each stat group e.g. if your math SAT is between 650 and 700 X% of the applicants were accepted. The Barnard data set just tells you what percent of the attending students scored in that particular range.</p>