<p>no mail today! :[</p>
<p>barnard is actually my second choice behind bryn mawr. and i’m hoping to become an english major/political science minor. so it’s cool to see some people with similar goals.</p>
<p>Hey ladies! I can’t believe it took me this long to find this thread, but I got into Barnard a few days ago. I guess I was one of the lucky ones from the first batch. I hope everyone in batch two gets good news next week–it’s certainly a rough wait. Is it just me, or is the waiting process harder this time around than it was in high school? </p>
<p>My stats, in case they’re helpful to anyone:</p>
<p>College: 3 semesters @ Middlebury, 1 as a part time visiting student @ Columbia
College GPA: 3.65
High School GPA: 3.6 at top private
SAT: 1520/2250
SATII: Literature: 730…Math 1C: 770…Math 2C: 770
Major: Art History/American Studies
ECs: Arts reporter, student art organization, radio theater
Work: This term, I’ve been interning at a TV show two days a week.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Oh **** there actually WAS a first batch! wow ok. CONGRATS LIONINWINTER! 
Hopefully we’ll all see you in the fall :)</p>
<p>OMG- so you got in from the first batch? I think you’re the first one we’ve heard from on the CC board! congrats!!! I bet it feels amazing. </p>
<p>now im all worried…are we sure that the batch on the third wasn’t just the acceptances and the batch on the 12th is the rejections? I don’t think they’d do it like that because then everyone would know ahead of time, but…can’t help but wonder!</p>
<p>ps- lioninwinter…AWESOME name. one of my FAVORITE movies of all time. props. <em>snaps for you</em></p>
<p>congratulations lioninwinter! it’s glad to know this mythical first batch existed!</p>
<p>WOWWW the May 3rd thing was truuue!!! Also, @lioninwinter HEYYY omg so happy so see you here! Remember us having that “transcript missing” dilemma for NYU 3 weeks ago? Did you get in there too?</p>
<p>Anyway! Congrats!! You’re still a visiting student at Columbia right now, right? When was your Barnard acceptance letter dated and mailed? And what does it look like? Are you attending? AHHH OMG!!! Hopefully the rest of us get ours next week! And I’m pretty sure the decisions regardless of when they were/are sent are all different, at least I hope they are…</p>
<p>Thanks, guys! :-)</p>
<p>@thewoman–haha, yep, I definitely remember our matching transcript disasters. I still haven’t heard back from them–have you? Irrelevant for me now…I think I’m a much better fit at Barnard.</p>
<p>I’m waffling about whether to attend by the minute. My family is pulling for me to go to Georgetown, but I’m just not sure. I went to an all girls’ school for thirteen years, and I’m really passionate about woman’s education. And I love the city (born and bred New Yorker), and having been at Columbia for a term and taken a class at Barnard, I’ve just really loved the experience. So, we’ll see…I have about a week and a half to decide.</p>
<p>As for the letter itself, it was dated the 3rd, and I got it the 5th. It was a large envelope–definitely some sort of rush-y thing (fedex? I think?), and contained a short brochure type of thing for the school.</p>
<p>BTW, all of you seem really cool–I hope we’ll be classmates!</p>
<p>@lioninwinter Oh wow, but where to was it mailed - your home or maybe temporary mailbox at Columbia? Dated the 3rd and arrived the 5th? Would expect it to arrive on the 4th if it were mailed to you in NYC, right? Or actually! Was it mailed the 4th despite it being dated the 3rd? Also, what does your acceptance letter say - anything about the number of transfer applicants and the number they’re offering admission to? Sorry for the question bombardment! Everyone of us here who’s gone nuts would probably (definitely) benefit from anything you say about it. Gotcha! So Barnard is your #1? Would love to be classmates next year!</p>
<p>LOL NYU. Not even! Seriously, their admissions office is kind of… cray-cray. Okay so I only applied to Barnard at first, then to NYU just in case, then because their deadlines allowed me to and I actually considered them as an incoming freshman, Northwestern and Smith. Every one of these schools had admissions office people that sounded like angels and every now and then would end convos with “Okay, bye, goodluck and take care!” For NYU, it was either scowls or growls or really snooty remarks, OR - I kid you not - bedroom voices. At noon, too. “Uhhh hello? What’s your uhhh… app number or uhhh… social? Ohhhhkay. Hmmrmmm… Uhhh…” Hahaha!! The best growl response I got was 2 days ago when I asked if my app has been under review and when I’d be getting mail, to which the lady very very quietly mumbled in slurred speech that sounded like “MUMM MMEYT” to which I giddily responded “Midnight?!” My bad hahhaha!!! She barked back with a “MID!!! MAY!!!” and slammed the phone down. Not to mention they put me on hold for 30-40 minutes twice during that time I was checking on transcripts.</p>
<p>Oh, Barnard! Please take us all. <3</p>
<p>and also P.S. What date did they give you as the deadline for your response?</p>
<p>HOLD UP hold up. </p>
<p>if they gave lioninwinter a week and a half to decide, does that mean IF we’re accepted in the 2nd batch, we’re only gonna have like…5 days? Or will they extend our deadline? </p>
<p>Either that, or the batch on the third was all of the acceptances. We really need to hear from someone who didnt get in on the 3rd just to be certain. </p>
<p>and lioninwinter, thanks for answering all of our questions. Any date you can provide will help immensely. :)</p>
<p>No worries on the questions–believe me, I’m thinking about college with a frequency that is in no way healthy. And so, the mainly boring details of the package:</p>
<p>I’m living at home this term (didn’t see the point in having to make friends in the dorms if I was leaving after a few months), so I have no alternate address. I’m afraid I have no idea when they mailed it–sorry I can’t be more help on this part!</p>
<p>The letter had no info on number accepted/applied–it just discusses the history of welcoming transfer students, taking approx. 80 per year, and quotes a prominent transfer–the school’s former president Ellen V. Futter.
Transfer students have two weeks to respond to the offer of admission, and this can be done online. The sooner you do it, though, the better, because it’s a factor in determining housing.</p>
<p>They normally include the credit awarded, but they didn’t in my folder, because I forgot to have the AP people send my official scores. I’m having them rushed.<br>
By the way, I think some people were worried a few pages back about not having sent course descriptions? Don’t worry–I didn’t either, and there was nothing mentioned about it. I think they can normally tell whether to award credit based on you transcript, but if they can’t, they’ll just ask you to send it in later.</p>
<p>@bwaybabe79 - I’m an actor/playwright. Oh and lets hope not TOO many girls applied for theatre - we need all the spaces we can get, lol.</p>
<p>@lioninwinter THANX GRRRL!</p>
<p>Hahaha. In the meantime the wait continues for the rest of us <3</p>
<p>Huzzah for being in the second batch.</p>
<p>…huzzah.</p>
<p>this is true…oy yoy yoyyyyy. </p>
<p>huzzah for second batch! in the meantime, we need to scout out people who didn’t get in from the first batch to be sure that decisions were mixed in.</p>
<p>Got my letter today. Waitlisted. I know it’s not a rejection but it feels like one.</p>
<p>Got my letter today. Waitlisted. I know it’s not a rejection but it feels like one.</p>
<p>waitlisted as well. im gonna go cry now.</p>
<p>Were the waitlist letters fedex or regular mail? Hang in there! Waitlist is not a rejection - I know many students that are at their first choice after being waitlisted.
It sounds like many applied to several schools and maybe Barnard is not their first choice and they won’t accept…</p>