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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wellesley is a stand alone LAC, Barnard is deeply integrated with the larger Columbia University experience. Barnard students say they have the best of both worlds- at Barnard, they can have the social experience of a women's college and intimate connections with Barnard affiliated faculty. Through Columbia, they get access to their classes, world class faculty members and associated researchers, Ivy league networking, and a larger undergraduate student body and extracurricular activities reflecting 12000 students.

Wellesley historically has a better reputation as the crown jewel among the women's colleges, but currently Barnard is seen as more desirable due to the Columbia/Ivy relation. Barnard actually has the highest yield of any LAC in the country, and it is considerably harder to get into vs. Wellesley these days.[/quote]

Barnard's not that hard to get into. My kid got in with an essay prompt that I would be embarrassed by - it was filled with grammatical errors, run on sentences and ultimately had no point. It was a last minute application and it showed.

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It may be that your kid got in on transcripts alone and they didn't bother reading the essay.[/quote]

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