<p>Tomorrow is the postmark deadline for ED applicants to Barnard.</p>
<p>Anyone out there applying? Want to share your stats?</p>
<p>There are three other people applying to Barnard ED from my school! Does this matter? I have a 1340 (670 on both) 29 on the ACT, top 5% of my class, with great ECs and recs. What about you guys?</p>
<p>Hm...I'm not really fond of sharing stats (because I always feel like I'm jinxing myself when I do so), but I guess this would be a good way to get rid of some of the nervousness - I have a calculus final to study for and two projects to complete, which I would really love to get all As on, hehe! ^^;</p>
<p>Score-wise, I have a 1400 on my SATs (750 verbal, 650 math), and a 32 on the ACTs (34 writing, 28 math, 36 reading comprehension, 28 science). I also sent the admissions office my SAT IIs, which were as follows: 760 writing, 690 biology, 630 math IC. (Gah! As you can probably tell, math is my weak point in everything!) I think I am relatively well-off when it comes to standardized testing.</p>
<p>I don't have many ECs - only about three or four major ones. I've been volunteering at a school age daycare for latch-key children for the past four years, and that is my main one. In school, I participate in a lot of art activities, like the scenery squad for the school play, spring and winter art shows, and the art club. I'm also in the Library Squad and Anime Club, though I'm not sure what the college would think of that.</p>
<p>My GPA and class rank are what I'm really worried about. My school is an extremely competitive one, where an 85 average isn't even enough to get you into the top 50%. It doesn't offer many Advanced Placement classes, but there are no "regular" classes - it's only honors or advanced placement classes, and nothing else. Thus, I've taken been taking all honors and APs since freshman year, but the school does not weigh your average for taking these things, so I'm not sure if that's going to work out to my benefit. Overall, my average is about a 3.6-3.7, and I'm not sure if I'm even in the top 20% of the class.</p>
<p>I'm also a little nervous about my recs, but that's really only because I'm always nervous about what people say about me. (No reason in particular...just your good ol' teenage insecurity, I suppose.) I'm also nervous about how well my essays and short answers are going to be received by the admissions office. Eek. I think it should be okay, though. I think.</p>
<p>All my classmates have been telling me not to worry, but you never know! Wednesday is only three days away, and I'm nothing but a bundle of nerves right now, hence the extremely long, self-centered post.</p>
<p>good luck!!! Do you have other people from your school applying too?</p>
<p>There is one other girl, who I'm friends with (though we're really not that close at all). Let's hope everything works out for the best - good luck to you, too!</p>
<p>I am from NJ, how about you? Is there any chance the mail could come the same day?!? I am so nervous!</p>
<p>I live in New York City. XD! Well, not really <em>in</em> Manhattan. More like Queens. But it's still only a couple of miles away from Barnard at most.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, most people get their letter on the 15th exactly. This means we both have to wait until Wednesday. (I'm not sure if I can wait that long without going insane, haha.)</p>
<p>that is so exciting!!!</p>
<p>And the end result of the excitement is that I find myself hanging around these boards a lot more, even when I'm not supposed to!</p>
<p>I feel like such a loser posting. There are definitely better things to do with one's time</p>
<p>Oh, tell me about it - I should be getting started on my friends' Christmas letters right about now. Or finishing up my other RD applications (which I <em>should</em> have done over the summer).</p>
<p>Speaking of RD, what other schools are you applying to?</p>
<p>Cornell (both parents went and grandfather taught there)McGill (1st choice I think), U Mich, William and Mary, Carleton, Wash U, and I am in at Rutgers and TUlane. you?</p>
<p>Cornell, Vassar, UoRochester, SUNY Binghamton, Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Wellesley. : )</p>
<p>good choices, I feel like if I don't get into Barnard I want to go to a less expensive school, I dont want to spend 40K+ a year to go to a school I am not crazy about</p>
<p>i'm applying to Barnard RD. YAY!</p>
<p>Lady Amalthea,</p>
<p>You mentioned having heard that the ED acceptance letters arrive exactly on the 15th--is this for NY residents only?</p>
<p>I thought Barnard mailed the letters on the 15th...</p>
<p>The responses I heard (from browsing Livejournal communities and such) is that some people receive them exactly on the 15th, while others receive them a few days afterwards, depending on distance/weather conditions. I think that, either way, the ED applicants will be receiving a response sometime this week.</p>
<p>Sorry for the confusion ^^;</p>