Reply to Disappointed with Barnard

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Disappointed with Barnard"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One more reason why Columbia > Barnard [/quote]

They can take the same classes, and are taught by the same professors.  What are you talking about?[/quote]

OP here- Barnard students can't take classes at Columbia freshman year.

FWIW, she took both STEM and non-STEM classes first semester.  No talk of transferring--she loves NYC and knows that she can take classes at Columbia starting next year. She was just surprised at being underwhelmed (and this is not a humblebrag- she was a very good student but not tippy top at her public school and her scores were fine but she didn't submit them at the advice of her counselor).[/quote]

Not an uncommon experience.

Students from one super elite prep boarding school handled the courses so well at Harvard (found the courses easy), that Harvard sent a team to the school to understand why.[/quote]

OP again- but DD is not from a super elite prep school...I would be far less surprised if that was the case.  She went to a solid public school (but not a TJ-type) and got almost all As with a few A minuses...I would definitely have thought that college would be a lot harder.  FWIW, she has said that she has a few friends at Barnard that do seem overwhelmed, but she thinks they are having a hard time with the general transition to college more than the academics per se. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics