Worried about "the Barnard effect?"

b_r_um
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:24:57 +0000

No “Barnard effect” at Bryn Mawr. In fact, none of my closer friends at Bryn Mawr even applied to Haverford or Swarthmore!

I think that Barnard is a lot closer to Columbia than Bryn Mawr is to Haverford. For example, Barnard students get @columbia.edu email addresses and a diploma from Columbia. They also share facilities, faculty and classes. (Officially professors are hired by either Columbia or Barnard, but when you walk through the hallways, you cannot tell the Barnard professors apart from the Columbia professors. Barnard professors also advise graduate students and teach graduate courses for Columbia.)

Bryn Mawr and Haverford have physically distinct campuses, with very different academic and social atmospheres.