Barnard is Barnard, not Columbia!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Barnard! Love it! Great school! I didn't call it Columbia, nor did I want to go to CU. But why do you care?

Well, can you answer the question? DOES your diploma say "Columbia" anywhere on it?

NP yes it does. At least my day we also had two graduations, our Barnard College graduation and a Columbia University graduation. That said I say I went to Barnard and am proud of my college.

[Anonymous]

Much easier to get into Barnard. Definitely a back door to borrowed prestige. Meh.

[Anonymous]

Kinda like optometrists who call themselves doctors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Barnard! Love it! Great school! I didn't call it Columbia, nor did I want to go to CU. But why do you care?

Well, can you answer the question? DOES your diploma say "Columbia" anywhere on it?

Yes it does.

[Anonymous]

Same as Emory and Oxford campus

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I didn't go there to get a back door into Columbia. I wanted a women’s college and actually turned down UPenn, Berekley (extension) and U Mich. I loved how intersectional everything was at Barnard, even in 1998. My classmates were brilliant, artsy, Socially conscious women, invluding many first generation students. I took 2 courses at Columbia. They were meh. I did like Butler library and the art history library, and i lived one year in a Columbia dorm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Barnard! Love it! Great school! I didn't call it Columbia, nor did I want to go to CU. But why do you care?

Well, can you answer the question? DOES your diploma say "Columbia" anywhere on it?

Yes it does.

I googled Barnard diploma and none of the image has Columbia on it.

Do you have an example?

[Anonymous]

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/required-reading/2017/04/03/decoding-the-tricky-barnard-columbia-relationship/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.columbiaspectator.com/required-reading/2017/04/03/decoding-the-tricky-barnard-columbia-relationship/

Yup, this confirms my suspicion that the two schools are separate and that anyone who tries to hawk their Barnard degree as a Columbia degree is being dishonest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a bit of a back door situation, isn’t it? They should just purchase another campus and sever formal ties to the university. After all, Barnardians proudly proclaim that they wanted to attend Barnard, not Columbia!

And yea, everyone finds the intentional obfuscation of the Barnard name on the part of Barnard students/grads shady. Just say Barnard.

Omg, yes, this. Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see DDs classmates posting Barnard-Columbia '26. No, they are two separate schools! Yes, you can take classes at one or the other but your diploma will say Barnard.

Be proud of Barnard.

Classmates? As in plural? If more than one girl from your schools goes to Barnard, you’re definitely a snob.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the same issue you run into with Harvard Extension School. The name confers expectations around selectivity and academic achievement— “vetting,” to put it shortly. The admission standards are different and more lenient. If you say you went to Columbia when you actually went to Barnard, you’re being duplicitous.

Barnard is 1000x more selective than Harvard's bogus extension school joke. Not comparable at all. And on top of that, isn't Barbard like $80,000 all-in a year? Any dipsh*t can sign up for some bogus 2 week Harvard Extension school thing or take one online class. Not the same at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.columbiaspectator.com/required-reading/2017/04/03/decoding-the-tricky-barnard-columbia-relationship/

Yup, this confirms my suspicion that the two schools are separate and that anyone who tries to hawk their Barnard degree as a Columbia degree is being dishonest.

All the Barnard grads I know say they are Barnard grads, not Columbia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a bit of a back door situation, isn’t it? They should just purchase another campus and sever formal ties to the university. After all, Barnardians proudly proclaim that they wanted to attend Barnard, not Columbia!

And yea, everyone finds the intentional obfuscation of the Barnard name on the part of Barnard students/grads shady. Just say Barnard.

Omg, yes, this. Well said.

Who exactly do you think this is misleading? The people who really know what Columbia is are going to know what Barnard is. So if you get into a conversation, they're going to be able to tease the Barnard out rather quickly, and you're going to embarrass yourself. And the other...99.99% of the population simply could not care less either way. Even the real Columbia does not ooze prestige to laymen.

[Anonymous]

Aren't Barnard grads usually pretty weird, hipster-ish, quirky and many are LGBTQ? At least they were in the 90s. I really doubt they're ever going up for the same sort of jobs the average Columbia overachiever is seeking.

OP is salty some status-obsessed family is misleading their UMC striver orbit. Who cares.