| "ending with its relationship to Columbia ("basically the all women's undergrad college"). I never, ever ever say simply "I am going to Columbia"."
saying the 'all women's college of columbia university' would be incorrect. the precise relationship is an affiliate. I don't know of any univ in which you can apply to two seperate undergraduate schools similtaneously, and get accepted to both.
If you end the explanation like that, you imply that barnard is an undergraduate school belonging to columbia, which, for a variety of reasons, not just the one cited above, it is not. The previous details are irrelevant in defining the relationship between barnard and columbia. It's like me saying "I go to a univ in NYC, it's a small school connected to a grad school, the undergrad engineering school of columbia" at the end I still cite the school as belonging to and subordinate to columbia, rather than closely connected but still an indepented institution like Barnard is. |