Science at Barnard?

churchmusicmom
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:52:59 +0000

What a great question!

Mythmom is correct: My d is a Senior majoring in Neuroscience and she will have completed requirements for both the cellular and behavioral concentrations when she graduates. Interestingly, she found out she loved Neuroscience only when she took the intro to Psych mentioned above, that she had to have in order to take the two Psych classes to fulfill the lab requirement for satisfying the “Nine Ways”! When she discovered this passion, she then took EXTRA organic chem, more math than she needed and has loved every minute. I can also tell you that she feels strongly that Barnard science is much more rigorous than at Columbia and that you get much more individual attention.

She applied for and was awarded a very competitive Columbia summer research internship (the AMGEN scholars program) last summer, and this was a University-wide applicant pool. Several of the AMGEN scholars that year were Barnard students, so Barnard was well-represented. She is now in the process of applying to grad school programs and has been assured by her advisor that people out there in the academic world understand how rigorous Barnard is. The completion of original research and a thesis by graduation is an added bonus and very well-regarded.

If science at Barnard is your goal and you make that clear on your application, I believe you will be well-considered indeed!

Best to you…if you have more individual questions, I will try to get my d to look at this thread (she posts on the Grad school boards occasionally).