Barnard College

Barnard College, a celebrated private women's liberal arts college, offers students "the best of both worlds" with both a "small academic setting" and "full access to the Ivy League institution (Columbia University) right across the street. The school's "close community" offers a familiarity that carries beyond the walls of the classroom into the real world, where 37,000 alumnae form an empowering web that provides internships, career opportunities, and guidance through a variety of programs such as Mentor-in-Residence. Through this vast support network and Barnard's plentiful resources (for instance, the school spends $750,000 annually to aid students wishing to take unpaid internships), students seamlessly undergo a "transition from a young female college student to an adjusted global citizen." Barnard College is filled with "driven, intelligent" students who are "extremely interested, dedicated, and passionate" in everything: "biology, dance, theatre, architecture, economics, international relations" (just to name a few). Undergrads suggest that there's a "tendency to overload," but qualify that by explaining that's not a bad thing, as they are "very proactive and use all resources available...to achieve their goals." Moreover, while students here are "ambitious, driven, and hard workers," it is "not at the cost of physical or mental health: they know how to have fun, too." The result is a group of women that is "smart, independent, and ready to take on the world." These "cool, creative, confident, well-spoken, and determined" women are well aware of what's been said about their "cosmopolitan" location: those who make it here can make it anywhere. Students at Barnard live in "one of the greatest cities on Earth," where they're not just given free admission to many of New York City's legendary institutions, but have the opportunity to study with local artists, curators, and scientists, often at the museums or labs in which they work. Of course, the beauty of the school's uptown location is that it provides a whole city to explore while also being just removed enough to allow "a lot of fun events [to] take place on campus." And while there are over 600 clubs between Barnard and Columbia, it's not unusual to find students "just chilling"-that is, when they're not "working or going to office hours, or pursuing an internship, a personal job, etc." Even with rigorous classes and a city filled with theaters, museums, and more restaurants than one can healthily visit in a lifetime-plus traditional and "phenomenal Greek life" opportunities across the street at Columbia-students are "intensely dedicated to pursuing their interests, whether that be artistic, academic, pre-professional, or athletic ones." The Jeanne Clery Act requires colleges and universities to disclose their security policies, keep a public crime log, publish an annual crime report and provide timely warnings to students and campus employees about a crime posing an immediate or ongoing threat to students and campus employees. The Princeton Review publishes links directly to each school's Campus Security Reports where available. Applicants can also access all school-specific campus safety information using the Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool provided by the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education: Education available through Furman Counseling Center, Access Barnard and The Francine A. LeFrak Center for Well-Being Local airports include LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark(NJ). Taxi/rideshare, bus, and subway service is available (in various combinations) to get you from airports to campus. Amtrak, Metro North, New Jersey Transit, and Long Island Railroad trains serve New York City as does Greyhound and several regional bus lines. Public transportation is available from Grand Central Station, Penn Station and New York Port Authority. Four public bus lines (M4, M11, M5, and M104) and 2 subways (the Broadway local, numbers