I know you guys hate these...chance me?

calmom
Sat, 24 Aug 2013 19:03:39 +0000

Well, I hate answering these, but I think your profile is very similar to my daughter’s (only yours is better academically) – my daughter was admitted to Barnard in 2006 and graduated in 2010. The Russian may do it for you-- Barnard has an excellent but under-enrolled Slavic Languages department (operated jointly with Columbia), and your abilities and accomplishments may be an attractive tip factor. My d submitted ACT rather than SAT, but her SAT’s were only 1200 in CR & Math – she had a strong writing score which brought her up to the mid 1900’s.

You can get a sense of Barnard enrollment figures from the data book here:
https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/2012_data_book.pdf

Obviously it will be nice if you can improve the scores – but if you can’t, I’d suggest that you move forward and build your app in a way that focuses on your strengths and strong interest in language study.

If you do want to continue study of Russian as well as Persian, I think that you will find that Barnard (along with Columbia) is a very conducive environment for your studies.