Barnard is Barnard, not Columbia!!!

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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.

I don't think this is true.

We've gone over this already. HYPS and MIT. That's all laymen give a sh*t about. Nobody is in awe of a Columbia bachelors.

People who say they aren't impressed by CU are the same people on the other threads asking how their kids can get into UMBC, Towson, Morgan...

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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.

LOL Barnard-Columbia seem so cringe and embarrassing

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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.

And yes, Harvard Extension folks would disagree. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/10/7/extension-school-scrut/

It's the same issue in different clothes.

No, it's not. The extension school rackets are largely online and the creepers in them literally can't even get access normal Harvard buildings. I assume Barnard girls do have key card access to all of Columbia?

Yes, Barnard ID gets you into any Columbia building. It’s treated the same as a Columbia ID.

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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.

+1. I know two Barnard grads well, and they would never say they went to "Columbia". They wanted to go to Barnard and are proud of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Same as Emory and Oxford campus

Was thinking this. Or UVa and UVA-wise.

um no, not the same in either instance.

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Anonymous wrote:Same as Emory and Oxford campus

Was thinking this. Or UVa and UVA-wise.

um no, not the same in either instance.

How so? Although it seems that Barnard and Oxford at Emory are really selective with admitted students having sky-high SATs and grades, which probably reflects their institutions' relationship with Columbia & Emory. UVA-Wise student stats are no where near those of UVA though.

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Anonymous wrote:So tell your DD and her friends - Not us.

I bet OP is a Columbia parent. Not Barnard parent.

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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.

LOL Barnard-Columbia seem so cringe and embarrassing

+ insecure strivers

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Someone upthread said harvard extension students have access to all buildings. That is 100000% false.

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Anonymous wrote:Same as Emory and Oxford campus

Was thinking this. Or UVa and UVA-wise.

um no, not the same in either instance.

How so? Although it seems that Barnard and Oxford at Emory are really selective with admitted students having sky-high SATs and grades, which probably reflects their institutions' relationship with Columbia & Emory. UVA-Wise student stats are no where near those of UVA though.

Oxford/Emory: Oxford is a two year school with an automatic transfer to Emory. Unlike Barnard, it is not a stand alone four year school.
UVA and UVA/Wise: UVA Wise is a teeny tiny LAC which shares a name with UVA but you do not graduate with a degree from UVA, you graduate with a degree from UVA Wise. Yes they have a guarantee transfer program, just like all community colleges in Virginia, based on attainment of a certain GPA I believe, but it is not anywhere near Barnard in anyway.

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I suspect that OP may be reacting to a social media mean queen NCS senior who keeps posting how she is "Barnard@Columbia '26" every chance she can. This senior has left a wide wake.

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I have a close relative who attended back when Columbia was single-sex and, back then, girls who wanted to attend Columbia applied to Barnard, so I give her a lot of slack when she says she went to Columbia. That’s no longer the case. However, the stats to enter Barnard are hardly anything to sneeze at. It’s an excellent school in its own right.

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I mean it’s not like there is another Barnard in Ohio or Florida. No one would be confused so adding the Columbia on social media or in conversation does strike me name dropping as odd as that is considering it’s CU and not YPSM.

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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.

What about <$100K HHI families who brag about "full ride scholarships" to suggest they're geniuses or something when it is quite literally means-based FINANCIAL AID offered to every admit at or below that HHI bucket. Sooooooo freaking cringe and shameless.

Do people do this?

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If you graduate from Barnard, do you have an Ivy League diploma?