Barnard College of Columbia University?

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Anonymous wrote:Hello :

Barnard is a separate college for women as undergraduates, with top educational standards. It is part of Columbia University. Columbia College and SEAS(School of Engineering)are also undergraduate divisions within Columbia University. Eac institution within Columbia University has its own admissions.
Barnard grants diplomas which say: Barnard College (in) Columbia University.

Women can apply to any three divisions as undergraduates: Barnard College, Columbia College, and SEAS.

There is also another division called School of general Studies which accepts students age 21 years and older who are non-traditional students ( eg, people who have taken some years off from education, veterans, and others who wish to receive an undergraduate degree, and who are not directly from high school or from a gap year between high school and college).

Barnard is an excellent college for women and is a charter member of the Severn Sisters. Athletes at Barnard can participate in the consortium with Columbia College and SEAS and play in Ivy league sports on Columbia teams. All three schools have cross-listing courses and many dorms are shared. Women at Barnard can have the benefits of being at an all-women college if they want, or partake in coed education with Columbia. The two campuses are next to each other and share many things such as libraries, eating facilities, and dorms, although separately owned by each division within the university.

Barnard, like Columbia overall, is a mostexcellent place and very stimulating. Morningside Heights is a fantastic place, very cultured, cosmopolitan and with two of the most famous gothic cathedrals in the United States almost next to campus 9 St. John the Divine and Riverside Cathedral. ( See the pictures on Google)

This is absolutely not true. Barnard is NOT a part OF Columbia. Affiliated, yes. A part of Columbia lke the College and SEAS, no. Barnard has its own board, trustees, administration. Diplomas say Barnard, not Columbia.

Agree - Barnard is TECHNICALLY NOT PART OF COLUMBIA UNVERSITY, rather it is affiliated through a contractual agreement that allows barnard to describe itself as being under the columbia umbrella and to alow barrnard participation in sports/clubs and some classes. Basically, Columbia undergrad includes the columbia college and columbia engineering admissions/stats combined. This is never the case with barnard. The columbia trustees and administration have no responsibility for barnard, which is separately managed. I think Barnard pays rent to columbia for some facilities, and perhaps that is why Columbia continues to "help" barnard.

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Anonymous wrote:No I’m not a troll. It’s a sincere question. I didn’t know it was part of Columbia. I thought they were different schools.

So if they’re the same why would a girl apply fo Columbia and not Barnard if Barnard is presumably easier to get in. I still don’t get what the deal is.

They are not the same.

Columbia requires a wide array of classes called the core. You might not want to take those. Barnard also requires breadth, but not quite as rigid about the structure. There is more to picking a school than pretty buildings and rankings. The colleges feel different.

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Barnard is part of the university. It is not the flagship Ivy college one thinks of, but very much part of the place. It has a different feel and separate admissions from Columbia college.

Back in the day, most ivies had a men’s college and a women’s college. Newcomb, Radcliffe, Evelyn.... most died away and were subsumed into the men’s college. But not Barnard stayed standing.

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard is part of the university. It is not the flagship Ivy college one thinks of, but very much part of the place. It has a different feel and separate admissions from Columbia college.

Back in the day, most ivies had a men’s college and a women’s college. Newcomb, Radcliffe, Evelyn.... most died away and were subsumed into the men’s college. But not Barnard stayed standing.

What you mean is that at most universities the women’s college was separate. The men got to go to the main university that we all know, and the women had to go to an affiliated college. Calling it a men’s college makes it sound like it was also something different. It wasn’t. The men got to go to the main university and women had to go elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Hello :

Barnard is a separate college for women as undergraduates, with top educational standards. It is part of Columbia University. Columbia College and SEAS(School of Engineering)are also undergraduate divisions within Columbia University. Eac institution within Columbia University has its own admissions.
Barnard grants diplomas which say: Barnard College (in) Columbia University.

Women can apply to any three divisions as undergraduates: Barnard College, Columbia College, and SEAS.

There is also another division called School of general Studies which accepts students age 21 years and older who are non-traditional students ( eg, people who have taken some years off from education, veterans, and others who wish to receive an undergraduate degree, and who are not directly from high school or from a gap year between high school and college).

Barnard is an excellent college for women and is a charter member of the Severn Sisters. Athletes at Barnard can participate in the consortium with Columbia College and SEAS and play in Ivy league sports on Columbia teams. All three schools have cross-listing courses and many dorms are shared. Women at Barnard can have the benefits of being at an all-women college if they want, or partake in coed education with Columbia. The two campuses are next to each other and share many things such as libraries, eating facilities, and dorms, although separately owned by each division within the university.

Barnard, like Columbia overall, is a mostexcellent place and very stimulating. Morningside Heights is a fantastic place, very cultured, cosmopolitan and with two of the most famous gothic cathedrals in the United States almost next to campus 9 St. John the Divine and Riverside Cathedral. ( See the pictures on Google)

Thank you. A plus answer for DCUM!

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard is part of the university. It is not the flagship Ivy college one thinks of, but very much part of the place. It has a different feel and separate admissions from Columbia college.

Back in the day, most ivies had a men’s college and a women’s college. Newcomb, Radcliffe, Evelyn.... most died away and were subsumed into the men’s college. But not Barnard stayed standing.

Vassar is still standing. Yale wanted to combine with its sister college back in the days. Their plan was to send all the women Vassar students to New Haven. Vassar decided to go co-ed without Yale. Yale then had to scramble to go co-ed itself.

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It is easier to get into Barnard than Columbia OP.
I had 2 HS friends attend. Their dorms were enormous, apartments where there were sometimes 6 to a room, but a huge room with huge windows etc. It was a very cool place to be in the late 80s/ early 90s. And super safe.

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So Barnard is prestigious?

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Anonymous wrote:So Barnard is prestigious?

yes

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Excellent explanation from the horse’s mouth:

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

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Yes, of course it is prestigious.

I went to Columbia College and knew plenty of gifted women who were students at Barnard. They were very bright, indeed; and many went onto medical schools, law schools, doctorates. I read some where that Barnard has the largest number of alumnae who go on to earn doctorates.

Columbia College ( from a man's perspective) quite frankly has the best of both worlds : women at Columbia College and women at Barnard. An intellectual and social paradise if/when one has the time from the heavy course load.
I guess a case of Adam thanking Eve twice over ! Two Eves are better than one.

Barnard provides a great contribution to the Columbia campus alongside its own campus, with all sorts of good things.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course it is prestigious.

I went to Columbia College and knew plenty of gifted women who were students at Barnard. They were very bright, indeed; and many went onto medical schools, law schools, doctorates. I read some where that Barnard has the largest number of alumnae who go on to earn doctorates.

Columbia College ( from a man's perspective) quite frankly has the best of both worlds : women at Columbia College and women at Barnard. An intellectual and social paradise if/when one has the time from the heavy course load.
I guess a case of Adam thanking Eve twice over ! Two Eves are better than one.

Barnard provides a great contribution to the Columbia campus alongside its own campus, with all sorts of good things.

This is gross and offensive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello :

Barnard is a separate college for women as undergraduates, with top educational standards. It is part of Columbia University. Columbia College and SEAS(School of Engineering)are also undergraduate divisions within Columbia University. Eac institution within Columbia University has its own admissions.
Barnard grants diplomas which say: Barnard College (in) Columbia University.

Women can apply to any three divisions as undergraduates: Barnard College, Columbia College, and SEAS.

There is also another division called School of general Studies which accepts students age 21 years and older who are non-traditional students ( eg, people who have taken some years off from education, veterans, and others who wish to receive an undergraduate degree, and who are not directly from high school or from a gap year between high school and college).

Barnard is an excellent college for women and is a charter member of the Severn Sisters. Athletes at Barnard can participate in the consortium with Columbia College and SEAS and play in Ivy league sports on Columbia teams. All three schools have cross-listing courses and many dorms are shared. Women at Barnard can have the benefits of being at an all-women college if they want, or partake in coed education with Columbia. The two campuses are next to each other and share many things such as libraries, eating facilities, and dorms, although separately owned by each division within the university.

Barnard, like Columbia overall, is a mostexcellent place and very stimulating. Morningside Heights is a fantastic place, very cultured, cosmopolitan and with two of the most famous gothic cathedrals in the United States almost next to campus 9 St. John the Divine and Riverside Cathedral. ( See the pictures on Google)

This is absolutely not true. Barnard is NOT a part OF Columbia. Affiliated, yes. A part of Columbia lke the College and SEAS, no. Barnard has its own board, trustees, administration. Diplomas say Barnard, not Columbia.

I went to Barnard and my diploma says Columbia University Board of Trustees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is easier to get into Barnard than Columbia OP.
I had 2 HS friends attend. Their dorms were enormous, apartments where there were sometimes 6 to a room, but a huge room with huge windows etc. It was a very cool place to be in the late 80s/ early 90s. And super safe.

Barnard is a draw in its own right aside from the odds of admission. DD preferred Barnard to Columbia because she found the Core overly restrictive. She also liked the fact that resources at Barnard are devoted to empowering and supporting women, right down to the heights of counters in the labs, we were told.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course it is prestigious.

I went to Columbia College and knew plenty of gifted women who were students at Barnard. They were very bright, indeed; and many went onto medical schools, law schools, doctorates. I read somewhere that Barnard has the largest number of alumnae who go on to earn doctorates.

Columbia College ( from a man's perspective) quite frankly has the best of both worlds: women at Columbia College and women at Barnard. An intellectual and social paradise if/when one has the time from the heavy course load.
I guess a case of Adam thanking Eve twice over! Two Eves are better than one.

Barnard provides a great contribution to the Columbia campus alongside its own campus, with all sorts of good things.

This is gross and offensive

Sorry. Absolutely no offense was intended. I was simply saying that I had a great time in College and Barnard was a big part of that. Great students, great teachers, nice traditions at Barnard. The meal plan was coed and was a lot of fun, too.

Thank you, Barnard.