barnard vs. wellesley

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Is ED advantage for Barnard and Wellesley real?

Both school ED acceptance rate in 30% range vs. RD 7-14%.

If certain these are ideal schools, how much ED could help?

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Anonymous wrote:Check out Bryn Mawr as well. Smaller than Wellesley, suburban but easy access to Philly.

But less prestigious and rigorous.

Not a prestige wh*re but peers are different by gpa and test score. Wellesley and Barnard take top 5% of the class, Bryn Mawr top 50%.

Not top 50% by any means. But they also give merit aid--whereas Barnard and Wellesley do not. We looked at all of them. We are paying half of that and saving that money for grad school.

Which 7S's give merit?

Smith gave DC's best friend a full merit ride!

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Anonymous wrote:All I can say is that if Barnard is chosen, and the student introduces herself as going/having gone to Columbia, and it is found out to be Barnard, a significant portion of people will think poseur.

unfortunately, parents also brag that their kid got into Columbia when it is Barnard. Don’t be that parent. smh

Don’t be that kid/recent grad either. Some won’t care when they look up your linked in profile, but many will.

I don't see why not. DC has a friend at Barnard, but she's in a Columbia Sorority, as an undergrad nabbed a position on the Columbia Law Review, and by all intents and purposes is a Columbia student. She just sleeps like, what, two blocks further west than Columbia students.

In the 1980s the Barnard administration and alumna fought to keep the school from being absorbed by Columbia. They are 2 separate schools. Would someone who went to Smith, but took a lot of classes at Amherst, say they went to Amherst?

But here's the difference: Amherst grads don't get degrees from the other 4 colleges, nor are their campuses on top of one another. Barnard is an official college of Columbia University. It's just a women's LAC under a university brand.

A women's college experience is different from a co-ed college experience. Barnard and Columbia College are two different undergrad experiences.

The women’s experience at Barnard is also fundamentally different than at Wellesley. Or at Smith. Or at Bryn Mawr for that matter. When it’s part of a coed school you lose a lot of what makes it uniquely a women’s college.