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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 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.

I doubt PP went to Columbia. Columbia College and SEAS students are pre-professionals. Barnard, on the other hand, is not pre-professional. Columbia kids are too nerdy to be focused on women.

I doubt you’ve ever met someone who went to Columbia. The school culture has a lot of faults (a bit too much of a snooty Manhattan intellectual vibe for my taste), but nerdy virgin isn’t one of them. Also, you do know half of Columbia College students are women, right?

- Barnard alumna

Barnard College is part of Columbia University the same way Columbia College is part of Columbia University. And the law school, business school, social work school, and the rest.

Anonymous wrote:It's a good opportunity but it's a backdoor. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, they often go hand in hand.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. If my DD was dead set on attending Columbia, I'd definitely have her consider applying to Barnard. Work those angles.

It's a good opportunity but it's a backdoor. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, they often go hand in hand.

Columbia College and SEAS received over 60,000 applications this year for the class of 2025.

That number of applications for about 1390 places at Columbia College makes it nearly impossible for anyone to be accepted. Barnard is a very good opportunity.

It is still an excellent college and provides wonderful opportunities for the women students. The admissions rate this year for the class of 2025 is just 10%.

Barnard is widely regarded as a backdoor into Columbia for girls who don't have the chops to get into Columbia College. It's an unfortunate and inconvenient reputation with a bit of truth.

No, just a nice hungry student who loves the meal options at Barnard. Very classy people and settings.

Anonymous wrote:The food at Hewitt was very good! Even now, I don't have meal plans anymore, I still go there once in a while to have lunch or dinner there. $8,50 for lunch buffet, and $11.50 for dinner buffet? It's a steal!! One time, the cashier lady just let me in without having to pay (I think they didn't want the hassle of taking cash and they were nice). I just love coming to Hewitt for decent food, nice desserts, and a few cups of French Vanilla coffee.

My favorite event at Barnard is the Midnight Breakfast! Omg, it was so festive there!! So crazy! Mountains of donuts, bagels, bacon, eggs, pancakes, waffles, ice-cream, tater tots, omggggg WONDERFUL! It was a nice break to go there with a few friends and just hung out for an hour after having studied for finals the whole day. A superb place for learning, munching on nice eats, and for meeting scholarly individuals.

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The food at Hewitt was very good! Even now, I don't have meal plans anymore, I still go there once in a while to have lunch or dinner there. $8,50 for lunch buffet, and $11.50 for dinner buffet? It's a steal!! One time, the cashier lady just let me in without having to pay (I think they didn't want the hassle of taking cash and they were nice). I just love coming to Hewitt for decent food, nice desserts, and a few cups of French Vanilla coffee.

My favorite event at Barnard is the Midnight Breakfast! Omg, it was so festive there!! So crazy! Mountains of donuts, bagels, bacon, eggs, pancakes, waffles, ice-cream, tater tots, omggggg WONDERFUL! It was a nice break to go there with a few friends and just hung out for an hour after having studied for finals the whole day. A superb place for learning, munching on nice eats, and for meeting scholarly individuals.

Here is an article on yelp about Barnard, written by a student a few years ago. It is very accurate.

1. It's a women's college! (Sorry, boys.) Barnard believes in women.
Barnard College is this extraordinary institution with a history of female empowerment at a time when Columbia College did not accept women. In fact, Columbia started accepting women only in 1983. Reading professor Rosalind Rosenberg's work Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics educated me about Barnard's determination for women in battles over coeducation. Barnard pays attention to female voices and brings women together to rethink long-established opinions. That faculty members, like Mary Gordon, are actively publishing authors who are fixtures in contemporary literature and will treat me no differently than young Zora Neale Hurston, Barnard College '28, whose works I adore, are reasons why Barnard is a hotbed of literary inspiration. Anna Quindlen, Barnard College '74, said, "Millennial women are the coolest, most capable, most together women ever." I think that Barnard was instrumental in laying the foundation for today's women and continues to teach girls how to be women in a world that has historically favoured men. I so want to join the ranks of the Bold Beautiful Barnard Women.

2. Location : New York City
Barnard College is in the heart of New York City, this major metropolis, whose personality has been explored by countless artists from Frank Sinatra to Alicia Keys. New York is a melting pot of diversity. 40% of its population comes from outside of the United States! As an international student applying to New York, I was keen to meet a diverse group of people within school and outside of school. There are countless concerts and museums (all with student discounts) and I can see myself enjoying myself learning about art at the MET or bopping awkwardly to the beat at pop concerts. Also as a classical music lover, I am excited to sit down at the Carnegie Hall. I performed there but once in my life a couple of years ago and it was a real experience! Honestly, with Carnegie Hall in New York and a couple of great pianists I have been itching to see like Yuja Wang and Martha Argerich.

3. Connection to Columbia University (Benefits of a large university and a small college)
The course catalogue is endless. Seriously. You get to take classes at any of the colleges and the sheer number of majors and minors available, shocking but evidently, you only need one or two. Columbia College is right across the street! Barnard College is a small school of a mere 2500 students total. This was very attractive to me because in most large universities, priority is given to the older students and the grad program students. Barnard College's professors teach freshmen to seniors and their attention is 100% placed upon the learning and the cultivation of these women. Barnard has the intimate sisterhood of 2500 students but the resources of a large university.

4. Don't worry about dating! Don't sweat it!
Dating in university is how you make it. If you take action, you will. The LGBTQ community is wide and open at Barnard College. Columbia College, the School of General Studies, and the FU School of Engineering, and everyone else is right across the street. You can date whoever you want (as long as it's consensual, of course). Graduate students are also a part of the dating pool. You will be surprised! My high school was an international school in Hong Kong with approximately 1800 students total from pre-kindergarten to Grade 12 so the dating pool each year was miniscule. There were only that many boys that you could possibly like however, dating, while perhaps not as glamorous and easy as it may appear because you're in New York and you can meet someone new everyday in New York, if you want to date, you probably will be able to. After texting to some older students at Barnard, the freshmen class was advised to use dating apps like Tinder. Don't worry about it! Love yourself first!

I love this place. You will too. It is beautiful and an absolute dream come true.

Columbia and Barnard since about 1969 have a longstanding arrangement of integrated but separate. Shared many facilities and full use by each side ( eg libraries, cross-listed and shared classes, and sports in the Ivy League Conference for Barnard women). Barnard has its own separate identity and did not want to merge with Columbia after 1969, unlike Radcliffe merging with Harvard and Pembroke merging with Brown.

Columbia deliberately delayed going coed on its own precisely to protect Barnard because Columbia feared that if it went coed ed without Barnard that admissions to Barnard would be harmed. Fortunately, to everyone's relief that never happened and Barnard has thrived having the best of both - a single women's college as it always wanted to maintain, and full access to all things at Columbia.

This arrangement with Columbia has worked out very well, and things have worked out well from Barnard's clear decision not to merge with Columbia. Everyone is happy, and the arrangement is strong and natural.

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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.

The point is the women’s colleges cot subsumed, but Columbia’s didn’t. It is still great.

Hello :

I understand the comment that the Columbia student made. The proper noun 'Eve' is used as a great compliment to the wisdom of women, and is consistent with his claim about intelligence and the alumnae pursuing advanced degrees.

Eve is perhaps the best-known female figure in the Bible. Her prominence comes not only from her role in the Garden of Eden story itself, but also from her frequent appearance in Western art, theology, and literature.

I get it.

You are A-OK, Columbia College alumnus. Thank you for your appreciationf our students.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I doubt PP went to Columbia. Columbia College and SEAS students are pre-professionals. Barnard, on the other hand, is not pre-professional. Columbia kids are too nerdy to be focused on women.