General Questions and Social Environment

Domi
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:18:37 +0000

This first question is directed towards students of color:
I am an accepted African American student who will be going on the welcome weekend trip later this month, but I am afraid that I won’t get honest answers. So please tell me, did you ever feel like you were accepted for the wrong reasons; that you were just a token?

Not so specifically, just how difficult is the relationship between Barnard and Columbia? Barnard is a college of Columbia University, yet it seems as if Columbia students go ballistic if Barnard students even attempt to mention the connection.
I think Barnard students should be proud for going to Barnard, but I don’t think its okay to just ignore that Barnard is a part of Columbia.

Also, what are the facilities like at Barnard? From what I have found, it seems like a lot of stuff is only available on Columbia campus. I want to be a biophysics major, and it seems as if I will spend the majority of my time on Columbia’s campus instead of Barnard’'s.

One last thing, is there anyone out there who applied to both Columbia and Barnard, and got accepted only into Barnard. If so, how did you handle that? That, again, seems to be something that Columbia students press about.

I could really use some good answers to this soon, because I have a hard decision to make.
Thanks!