<p>Joycell, have you attended either school?</p>
<p>Average SATs:
NYU: 1300-1450 (50% range)
Barnard: 1360</p>
<p>The schools are about the same as far as difficutly to get into, and this is when you include NYU’s non-academic schools (School of Ed, Social Work, GSP). </p>
<p>As for being treated like an individual (not even sure how you define that)-here is the student/faculty ratio:</p>
<p>NYU: 12/1
Barnard: 10/1</p>
<p>-Barnard has a slight edge, but there isn’t a big difference, and NYU’s departments are better in most areas. </p>
<p>“Baloney. They are two entirely different schools.”</p>
<p>Oh really? Then why does Barnard love to adverstise that they are “affiliated wth Columbia”? Yes, I’ll agree its a separate school right across the street, but the fact is, Barnard loves to piggyback off Columbia and they adverstise the Columbia connection wherever they possibly can. </p>
<p>Here is a quote from Barnard’s website:</p>
<p>“Barnard is located just across Broadway from Columbia’s main campus and is one of four undergraduate schools within the Columbia University system (the others are Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies).”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.barnard.edu/about/btoday.html[/url]”>http://www.barnard.edu/about/btoday.html</a></p>
<p>The only reason that Barnard has ANY prestige is because of the Columbia connection. Barnard (ITSELF) isn’t all that much. How many distinguished profs. or top ranked departments does Barnard (ITSELF) have?</p>