General Questions and Social Environment

churchmusicmom
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:13:18 +0000

Domi, I am a mom of a senior at Barnard and can address your questions from my second-hand info…

Well, I can’t really speak to your question about feeling like some sort of “token” other than to say that I have never, ever gotten any sense of that sort of attitude from my daughter or from her friends. There are people of all sorts of races and nationalities there…

My daughter has had absolutely no difficulty with the Barnard/Columbia thing. She loves and is very, very proud of being a Barnard student. It has served her well, indeed. The animosity you see on the Columbia board here at CC is NOT characteristic of what you find on campus. And taking classes at Columbia will not be an issue at all. There will be no difference between you and all the other students in the class. No way to tell who is from Barnard and who is a CC student (unless they are male, of course!). Same deal with Barnard classes…

My d applied to both Columbia (ED) and to Barnard and was only accepted into Barnard. After she sent in her ED app to Columbia she actually interviewed at Barnard and, at that point, regretted applying ED to Columbia because she realized barnard was the better situation for her. She was so happy to get into Barnard! You need not feel any discomfort in that situation. NOBODY has “pressed” her about that. You only find that sort of garbage from insecure people on the Columbia boards.

Best to you in making your decision!!!