Barnard College

Mission Statement : Barnard College aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research university. With a dedicated faculty of scholars distinguished in their respective fields, Barnard is a community of accessible teachers and engaged students who participate together in intellectual risk-taking and discovery. Barnard students develop the intellectual resources to take advantage of opportunities as new fields, new ideas, and new technologies emerge. They graduate prepared to lead lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by love of learning.

As a college for women, Barnard embraces its responsibility to address issues of gender in all of their complexity and urgency, and to help students achieve the personal strength that will enable them to meet the challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. Located in the cosmopolitan urban environment of New York City, and committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff, Barnard prepares its graduates to flourish in different cultural surroundings in an increasingly inter-connected world.

The Barnard community thrives on high expectations. By setting rigorous academic standards and giving students the support they need to meet those standards, Barnard enables them to discover their own capabilities. Living and learning in this unique environment, Barnard students become agile, resilient, responsible, and creative, prepared to lead and serve their society.

Location : Broadway, New York

Funding : 3-4 full scholarships a year. On the admissions front, Barnard is the most competitive of all the women's colleges.

Fact : Barnard College is one of the original "seven sister" colleges. Closely affiliated to Columbia university so you can share courses. On a four acre urban campus.

Total Enrollment : 2,357

Specialism: Nearly 50 areas to major.
The top 6 are English, Psychology, Political Science, Economics, History, and Biology.


Percent of Applicants Admitted: 23%

Testing : 25th / 75th Percentile
SAT Critical Reading: 630 / 730
SAT Math: 620 / 710
SAT Writing: 650 / 760
ACT Composite: 28 / 31
ACT English: 29 / 34
ACT Math: 25 / 31

2 Subject tests required

Commonapp Supplement questions : 
Answer each of these in a well-developed paragraph: (Word limits to be released with supplement. Length does not matter to admissions office).

A. What factors have influenced your decision to apply to Barnard College? What intrigues you about Barnard”s approach to the liberal arts and sciences?

B. Pick one woman in history or fiction to converse with for an hour and explain your choice. What would you talk about?

C. Alumna and writer Anna Quindlen says that she “majored” in unafraid at Barnard. Tell us about a time when you majored in unafraid.

D. Community – educational, geographic, religious, political, ethnic, or other – can define an individual”s experience and influence her journey. How has your community, as you identify it, shaped your perspective?

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