Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming to Barnard

If you take a class and you don't expect to do as well as you like, it is always better for your GPA to drop the class and take a W rather than to see what you get in the end.

Make sure you really look for interesting classes and good professors during the shopping period at the beginning of the semester, since after this time, it is difficult to get out of a bad class.

Classes here are competitive—there are many aspiring young professionals here who are “18 going on 30.”