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<p>Why are these admissions statistics so different from Columbia’s? Is Barnard college Columbia or Barnard? I’m confused…</p>
<p>I just mean in terms of the testing stats… the sat difference is stark. Do Barnard students get counted in overall Columbia University demographics in other cases?</p>
<p>Barnard College is an affliate college of Columbia. It has separate admissions. Admissions rates for the three colleges that constitute “Columbia proper” are also different than each other. You can presumably find the stats for Columbia U College of General Studies, Fu, and Columbia College, which are the individual colleges of the university proper, someplace. </p>
<p>Barnard’s admissions profile is affected first and foremost by the fact that it is an all women’s college, therefore only half of the national applicant pool can apply. It admits the smallest % of applicants of any women’s college in the country, but when half the population can’t apply there are limits to selectivity evidently. . There are a number of other reasons, but this is a good place to start.</p>